Functions 2023

Unless otherwise noted, please note that Saturday evening functions start at 6:30PM with pooja, satsang and aarti followed by preeti bhojan. Sunday morning functions start at 10:30AM with pooja, satsang and aarti followed by preeti bhojan.

Temple
Function Date
Actual
Festival Date
Function Name Hosts Lunch/Dinner
Jan 1 Jan 1 New Year Havan Gordy and Ravinder Dodd family Lunch
Jan 15 Jan 14 Lohri & Sankranti Shailesh Newaj and Dave Chuttoo families Lunch
Feb 4 Jan 25/Jan 27 Vasant Panchami/Ratha Saptami Saraswati Pooja and VidyaArambham 5:30 – 6:30pm
Feb 18 Feb 18 Maha Shiva Ratri Temple is open for Darshan from 9AM to Noon and 5PM to midnight
Feb 19 Feb 19 AGM & Elections ( 2PM to 4PM) Location: Temple 2-4pm
Mar 12 Mar 7 HOLI/Rang Panchami Shenwai and Gham Families
Chaitra/Vasant Navratri – Mar 21– Mar 31
Mar 18 Mar 22 Gudi Padva Soman, Patade, Pednekar, Martal families Dinner
Mar 25 Mar 22 Ugadi Chinna & Teja Katireddy, Praveen & Deepika Pottumutu, Pradeep & Aarti Nagam, Arvind Reddy Cheeruka, Manasa Reddy Yarala, Sreenath & Brahmini Kamasali, Chandra & Jaya Erant, Dr. Satish & Bahaar Rachapalli, Eswar & Nikhila Nedunuri, Sandeep & Gayathri Devalapurkar, Ranadheer & Divya Morthala, Revanth & Divya Reddy, Sivaram & Silky Chadok Kumar, Siva & Ramya Pabolu and families. Dinner
Apr 1 Mar 29 Shree Ramnavami/Sundarkand Paath Vishal Kulkarni, Sunita Singh, Manish Tomar, Jaya Malhotra Dinner
Apr 8 Apr 5 Hanuman Jayanti Jyoti Kumar, Shikha Singh, Manish Kumar, Archana Kumari Dinner
Apr 15 Apr 14 Vaisakhi / Baisakhi / Vishu Amit and Sucheta Jagoputra Dinner
Apr 22 Apr 22 Vishu/Akshaya Tritiya Priya & Ram Raman, Reshmi & Saibish, Jyothy Venu & Vinod, Anju & Abhilash Dinner
May 5 May 5 Buddha Purnima Bal & Urmila Sharma Dinner
June 10 June 10 Visit by Shree Vaishnavacharya Yadunathji Gujrati Parivar Dinner
June 17 June 19 Rath Yatra Prashant Kumar, Apurva Badoni, Tapesh Singhal and Minu Dinner
July 2 July 2 Guru Purnima Anupam Heda & Neha Dhanotiya and Family Lunch
July 8 July 8 Festival of India Temple 11am – 4pm
Aug 20 Aug 20 Picnic (Beaver Lake) Temple 11am – 4pm
Aug 26 Aug 25 Raksha Bandhan Pradip & Urmila Misra Dinner
Sept 2 Aug 30 Vara Mahalakshmi Pooja Kannada Familes Dinner
Sept 2, 3, 9 10 Sept 2, 3, 9 10 Raas Garba Island Gujrati Parivar Beckwith Park
Sep 6 Sep 6 Krishna Janamashtami Gujrati Parivar 7pm – Midnight
Sep 23 Sep 18 Ganesh Chaturti Raj Padmawar and Family Dinner
Pitru Paksha – Sept 29  – Oct 13/Oct 14 (Surya Grahan)
Sep 30 Sep Multi Faith Function
Sharad Navratri – Oct 15  – Oct 23
Oct 21 Oct 21 Durga Ashtami Friends of Temple
Oct 28 Oct 23 Dussehra
Oct 31 Oct 31 Karva Chauth Katha and Pooja
Nov 4 Nov 4 Diwali Show at UVic Ticketed Show 5pm UVIC
Nov 11 Nov 12 Deepavali Laxmi Puja
Nov 25 Nov 26 Kartik Poornima
Guru Nanak Dev Ji Jayanti
Dec 22 Gita Jayanti
Jan 1, 2024 New Year Havan

Private Functions

Private
Function Date
Function Name Time
March 26, 2023 Wedding 8am – 1pm
March 30, 2023 Wedding – civil Ceremony 7pm – 9pm
June 28, 2023 Wedding 9am – 5pm