Port Louis Diversity Slide Show



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The majority of Mauritians are descendents of laborers from India that began coming to Mauritius in the early 1800s from the north Indian state of Bihar. These Bihari Indians and some fellow Hindi-speaking Hindus settled as a community in Mauritius and began to build temples for their religious practice. This temple, the Shri Jagannath Kchetra Mandir, is an example of a contemporary Hindu temple of the Hindi-speaking community in Mauritius.