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Hindu Lamp Ceremony

Location

Pebble Beach

Date

Saturday, August 16, 2025

Time

4:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Join for the traditional Hindu Aarti ceremony at Pebble Beach.

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August 16 @ 4:00 pm 7:30 pm

The 13th annual Hindu Lamp Ceremony returns to Brooklyn Bridge Park! Dance artist and educator Aeilushi Mistry brings peace and harmony to the community as she performs the traditional Hindu Aarti ceremony at Pebble Beach.

The Aarti ceremony is traditionally performed each morning and evening along India’s rivers, in order to convey gratitude to mother river, reflect on community, and remember loved ones. Please join us as we decorate palm leaf lamps and release them* along the East River to make prayers and pay our respects to loved ones. Guest artists will also present their work at this event.

This event is a free walk-up event and open to all; no advance registration required.

*palm leaf lamps are collected shortly after release by volunteer kayakers to prevent pollution. We hope you understand and appreciate the symbolic gesture of releasing them

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Hindu Lamp Ceremony

Crowd on the beach launching lamps into the water.

© Etienne Frossard

Hindu Lamp Ceremony
Woman in the water launching lamps.

© Etienne Frossard

© Katherine Gray

Woman in sari performing a ceremony

© Erik Almedia

Woman playing the drums at sunset

© Katherine Gray

Crowd on the beach launching lamps into the water.

© Etienne Frossard

Close up of young boy painting a lamp at sunset.

© Etienne Frossard