Join Us for Our Shakambhari Navaratri Celebration 2025!

Shakambhari Navaratri is the 9 night festival for Goddess Shakambhari, honoring the origin of Goddess Shakambhari and her vanquishing of the demon Durgama, when he deprived the world of nurishment. Shakambhari shed tears of compassion for nine days and nights which caused rains that restored vegetation to nourish the world.

​The festival starts on Shukla Ashtami (the 8th lunar phase of the waxing moon) in Pausha month (Dec. / Jan.) and ends on Purnima (fullmoon). This year, Shakambhari Navaratri begins on Jan. 6th and concludes on January 13th. (Note that this particular Navratri festival is not always precisely 9 nights)   

Sponsorship

As a not-profit Hindu temple we rely upon your generous contributions to perform these powerful rituals for loka kalyanam (the welfare of the world). Sponsors will be sent kumkum from the pujas.
​Dispatch of prasadam to sponsors in other countries may be subject to local customs regulations.    

$27 Sponsor 1 night's puja

$108 Sponsor the Devi Homam

$1,000 Spnsor all pujas 

Donate amount of your own choosing. 

Shakambhari Navaratri Puja Schedule 

Shakambhari Alankaran here 2023

Each Day From January 6th - Jan. 13th,
we will be conducting Devi Puja:  

Lalita Sahasranam and Shakambhari Maahaatmyam
Nava Dravya Abhishekam of the Vyomashma (Jade) Meru Shri Yantra 

On Monday Jan. 13th, we will perform Devi Yajna starting around 2 PM and kumbhabhishekam of the Meru Yantra. Shakambhari Alankaran will be offered (decorating the vigraha of the Goddess with garlands of fruits and veggies).   

Daily timings for the pujas may vary according to our other obligations. Please contact us at [email protected] if you would like to physically attend to confirm the timing for the puja.