What is a puja room, you ask? "Puja" (Sanskrit for reverence or worship) is a Hindu religious ritual performed as an offering for deities, distinguished persons, or special guests. More elaborate pujas are done in pub...
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What is a puja room, you ask? "Puja" (Sanskrit for reverence or worship) is a Hindu religious ritual performed as an offering for deities, distinguished persons, or special guests. More elaborate pujas are done in public temples, but there’s also a daily puja that many Hindus perform at home. The place where they perform the ritual is called—you guessed it!—the Puja Room.
The rules for puja feng-shui are many and complicated, but should you want to set up your own, all the experts pretty much agree that it should be in the northeast corner of the house—not, under any circumstances, located next to a bathroom—and kept immaculately clean at all times; white, light blue and light yellow are particularly auspicious colors for the walls, and images of gods/deities are allowed to face any direction except south.
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