2025-03-17T14:30:06Z 2024-12-31 990EZ 2024-01-01 842351503 HARRISBURG GUJARATI ASSOCIATION HARR 0000000000 2070 RALEIGH RD HUMMELSTOWN PA 17036 Dilip Patel 0 0000000000 2025-03-17 true 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X X 67230 58582 0 2062 6586 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 67230 0 0 0 28754 14063 220 0 43037 24193 157547 0 181740 157547 181740 0 0 0 0 157547 181740 0 0 157547 181740 Primary Mission To propagate teachings and ideals of GujaratiHindu Religion To foster basic tenets and doctrines of Gujarati Religion within our community of greater south central Pennsylvania To celebrate auspicious events and festivals in accordance with Gujarati Religion To arrange and conduct lectures seminars religion-related education classes for children youth adults as well as other allied programs To promote and elevate spiritual awareness with harmony and unity To keep liaison with other Asian American institutionsorganizationsHARI which are based on our pattern of following rituals and practices To keep liaison with other organization within our community for harmony with respect and understanding Narrative Description of Activities done by HGAofCPA HGACPA is a group of Gujarati Indian language speaking people of South Central Pennsylvania who have formed this organization to maintain enhance understand and appreciate Gujarati language Gujarati culture and Gujarati heritage The following activities are geared towards the above purpose Navratri This is one of the biggest and longest festival of Hindus that spans over nine nights and ten days and is celebrated every year in autumn This festival depicts a battle that took place between Goddess Durga and demon Mahishasura and celebrates the victory of Good over Evil These nine days are solely dedicated to Goddess Durga and her nine distinct avatars Gujarati people celebrate this tradition by fasting for a day or partially each of the nine days in remembrance of one of nine aspects of the Durga Shakti goddess The prayers are dedicated to a symbolic clay pot called Garbo as a remembrance of the womb of the family and universe Garbo significance is celebrated through performance arts on all the nine days The group dance popularly known as Garba is performed by live orchestra seasonal raga and devotional songs It is a folk dance where people form concentric circles around the garbo The circles can grow or shrink reaching sizes of 100s sometimes 1000s of people dancing and clapping in circular moves in their traditional costumes HGAofCPA organizes Navratri for the members each year Attendance - 1700 33423 16546 Diwali Festival - This is a festival of Lights It signifies light over darkness knowledge over ignorance and hope over despair similar to Christmas In this cultural event all the HGAofCPA members meet and celebrate it by worshiping Goddess Lakshmi Post worshiping the members socializes and feasts together Attendance - 352 21645 21923 Picnic - This is an outdoor summer event at a park In this event all HGAofCPA members join together to promote the social activities of Gujarati culture Attendance - 500 3514 3183 41652 Dilip Patel Treasurer 30.00 0 0 0 Ronak Patel President 20.00 0 0 0 Alpesh Patel Vice President 10.00 0 0 0 Chirag Patel Secretary 20.00 0 0 0 false false false false false 0 false false false false PA Dilip Patel 2070 Raleigh Rd Hummelstown PA 17036 7175661561 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE 0 NONE true X 0 2175 57862 48509 58582 167128 2175 57862 48509 58582 167128 0 167128 251 519 750 6586 8106 175234 0 0.95 0 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED None