NASHUA – Religious clarification and more than a dozen public speakers made for a lengthy Planning Board discussion Thursday night about a Hindu temple’s hopes of moving from Progress Avenue to a 19th-century farmhouse on Broad Street.
After three hours of debate before about 50 members of the public, the board approved the proposal of daily operational hours from 10 a.m.-9 p.m., with the stipulation that the temple provide a list of holidays that require later hours.
“I have to say I’ve never seen so much conflicting information in a three-hour cycle as I have this meeting,” Planning Board Chairman Ken Dufour said three hours into the meeting. “I just don’t know what to make of it … but a lot of that is emotion and not what we’re doing here this evening.”
The applicant, Hindu Temple of New Hampshire, which has slowly grown to 50 devotees over four years of operation, came out with dozens of supporters behind the move Thursday. But they were faced with equally strong opposition from residents of the Majestic Heights residential development just behind their proposed site.
“We just wanted a place for the gods to be placed there,” said a Nashua resident and temple supporter named Usha. “The reason is not because the number of devotees have risen exponentially.![]()
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