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In the evening, a tall structure made from bundles of bamboo is set alight and once the sun sets, priests offer prayers to the harvest god, who they believe will bring a generous crop season.

On Wednesday evening, religious leaders and community organizers gathered at a park in downtown San Jose to memorialize the victims and offer prayers to their families.

Ausettua AmorAmenkum, a Kumbuka founder, stopped at the downtown side of a new historical marker at the Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard intersection to offer prayers to the ages.

We went to annual Hindu festivals to offer prayers to various gods and goddesses.

The temple’s Facebook page shows a room behind heavy brown front doors where visitors can offer prayers to a pair of small figures draped in flowers.