Hindu Prayer Room

The Hindu Prayer Room is a space where Hindu students can perform worship services and meet for small cultural events. It is open to students during the week for prayer, contemplation or personal worship on an individual basis: at any time when the chaplain’s office is open, you can come and ask at the front desk for it to be unlocked.

A variety of group-oriented spiritual and cultural programs, mainly hosted by the Yale Hindu Students Organization, also occur in this room during the semester. These include text study, discussions, speaker events, chai socials, and creative art activities such as crafting clay Ganesha statues during Ganesh Chaturthi.

Special pujas that celebrate major Hindu festivals such as Navaratri, Maha Shivaratri and Rama Navami also occur in Dwight Chapel on Old Campus. These worship services occur as close to the actual date as possible.

For more information about Hindu Life at Yale, please visit https://hindulife.yale.edu/ or contact Dr. Asha Shipman, the Director of Hindu Life for Yale University.

♿Accessibility Information

The Hindu Prayer Room is next to the Chaplain’s Office, where the primary door (Bingham D) leads directly to a flight of stairs down.  There is also a ramped entrance to Bingham C, from which you can take the elevator down to the basement level. The Hindu Prayer room is on your right directly after exiting the elevator.

An accessible bathroom is just across the corridor.

This is a shoes off space! Please remove your shoes before entering.