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Two men, a monk and a volunteer, carefully slather gold paint onto the miniature statues of the Buddha.

5000 buddhas, all with the names of different donors ($200 donation per buddha) will eventually line the floors and walls of the lower and upper levels of the stupa.

Painted Buddhas in various mudras and configurations adorn the ledges of the lower level of the stuppa, illuminated by colored LED lights.

All of the sold statues and painted Buddha statues are neatly placed on pyramidal stands, lit up by the same multicolor LED lights that pervade the rest of the stupa.

Kenesseth Israel is an Orthodox congregation, one of the oldest in Minnesota. It was founded in 1891 on Minneapolis's North Side, becoming a vital part of Jewish life there. In 1971, due to the large-scale migration of Jews to the northern and…

Bnai Emet is a Conservative congregation founded in 1971. Its origins lie with B’nai Abraham, a congregation founded in 1889 in South Minneapolis by Romanian immigrants. It moved to St. Louis Park in 1958, and in 1971 it merged with another…

Beth El is a Conservative congregation founded in 1926. Originally on the North Side of Minneapolis, it was founded by younger people who wanted to practice a more forward-looking brand of Judaism then their (Orthodox) parents. It moved to its…

The outdoor temple of the Watt. In the foreground the Buddha statue is has the Bhumisparsha mudra, or the earth touching or earth witness mudra. This mudra, formed with all five fingers of the right hand extended to touch the ground, symbolizes the…

The outdoor temple is for burning incense because indoors it gets all over everything. Sophia Sour explains that “it’s a place you can actually go and ask for wishes or where…good deeds come to you.”