All the Hindu temples around the globe in the palm of your hand

An app helps you find the nearest temple.

By Deepak Chitnis

WASHINGTON, DC: A new mobile app, available for purchase through Apple’s App Store for iOS devices, is a fully stocked directory of Hindu temples all around the globe.

The “World’s Best Hindu Temples Directory” app allows users to find the best temple in their immediate location, based on their GPS location. The app offers driving directions, as well as social media options to get in touch with the temple via phone, email, Facebook, and other means. The app also shares hours of operation, allows users to report problems, and so on.

The app is available for iPhones and iPads, and has been copyrighted by Maya Apps, and its main developer is a man named Hari Iyer. In a press release, Maya Apps even invites those who get the app and experience issues with it to email Iyer directly at hari@allhindutemples.com.

“By converting it into a Mobile App, devotees can now have the complete worldwide database right in their pockets, by default the app locates the temples closest to your current location but you can also go on a worldwide virtual journey looking at Hindu temples all over the world as pins on a Google map,” says the company.

The company is relying on users around the world to help them by submitting pictures and information about temples to them, at which point that information can be used to update the already extensive database that Maya Apps has in place. With over 2,000 temples already accessible via the apps, in countries all over the world, the World’s Best Hindu Temples Directory is a devout Hindu’s best friend.

The app is currently optimized for iOS 7 and iPhone 5. Although still not available for non-Apple users, Maya Apps and Iyer are developing an Android-friendly platform for those users, as well. The mobile app currently costs $1.99, but the desktop version of it does not cost anything, and is available for anyone to use at www.AllHinduTemples.com.