A house temple (Ghar Derasar or Griha Chaityalaya) is a private Jain temple, Jain shrine that is placed within a personal residence. Sometimes it is separate room or structure in a compound.
Jain scholars prescribe that the height of a pratima in a house shrine should not exceed 11 aṅgulas, i.e. about 21 cm.
The formal communal temple is often referred to as a Shikharbaddha mandir, shikharbandi Jinalaya, i.e. with a Sikhara, shikhara. Sometimes a temple starts as a house temple, which grows into a formal shikharbandi Jinalaya when the community grows to be sufficiently large.
श्री गोड़ी पार्श्वनाथ, Acharya Vimal Sagar Suri, शेठ अमीचंदभाई ने आराधना के लिए अपने घर में गृह जिनालय बनाया था।
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Jain author Haribhadra Suri states in one of his famous granthas, ''Sambodh Prakran'' that if a Śrāvaka (Jainism), lay person has savings more than 100 rupees, then there must be a ''Ghar derasar'' at his/her home. Further he says that the house which does not have a Ghar derasar is not a home, it is a graveyard.
In that derasar, an image of a Tirthankara must be installed, on which the rituals of anjanshalaka, anjanashalaka (Panch Kalyanaka Pratishtha Mahotsava) must be done.
See also
* Butsudan
References
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Jain temples and tirthas