One place - two worlds. Tamil Hindu life in Germany went largely unnoticed by the locals until the consecration of the "Hindu Shankarar Shri Kamadchi Ampal temple". Now this site has become a tourist attraction. The top picture shows the temple one week after its consecration: the scaffolding for Mahakumbhabhisheka has not yet been removed, but the temple is already a popular destination for weekend excursions by car or bicycle (top picture). At the same time, the temple is a place for Sri Lankan refugees to continue their traditional religious life far away from home. The Kamadchi temple was the first German Hindu temple to organize splendid processions at the temple festival. Just like temples in Sri Lanka (and South India), now it, too, owns variously decorated carts and litters for each of the fourteen festival days and tries to maintain strict orthodoxy in many ways, e.g. males drawing the cart or carrying the litter with the utsava-murti must keep the upper part of their bodies naked (picture below), and women should not visit the temple when they are menstruating. Top photo: 28.7.2002; bottom photo: 7.6.2004.