Vastu for Pooja Room: Direction, Placement and Size

Best directions

• North-east: the first choice, for both the room and a pooja cabinet.
• East or north: good second choices.

Directions and places to avoid

• Under the staircase.
• Sharing a wall with a toilet, or directly above or below one.
• Inside a bedroom; if there is no other place, use a cabinet in the bedroom's north-east corner.
• The south and the south-west.

Inside the room

• Place the deities so the person praying faces east or north.
• Keep the idols a little above floor level, on a platform or shelf, and not touching the wall.
• Use light colours: white, cream or pale yellow.
• Keep lamps on the south-east side of the room.
• Store pooja items in the south or west, and keep the room uncluttered.

Practical sizes

• A pooja room can be as small as 20–25 sq ft, for example 4 × 5 ft, with a door or folding shutters.
• 36 sq ft or more lets the family sit inside together.
• In a compact 1BHK or 2BHK, a pooja cabinet or niche in the north-east of the hall or the kitchen is common.

Check it on your own plan

VARAIPADAM places the pooja room, kitchen and master bedroom by their Vastu zones and shows, for each of its five plans, which of them sit in their zone. Move any room and the check updates.

Vastu guidance here is general and traditional. If it matters to your family, confirm the final plan with a Vastu practitioner, and have a licensed engineer check the structure.

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