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The Satyanarayana Puja is a Hindu religious observance. As the name signifies,Sastyanarayana is an incarnation of Lord Sriman Narayana, or Lord Vishnu. The puja is verypopular in all parts of India. It is a ritual performed by Hindus before any major occasion likemarriage, house-warming ceremony, in times of achievements and others. It is in a way anoffering of gratitude to the Lord Satyanarayana. In addition, it is said that a devotionalperformance of this puja will bear children to couples trying to start a family.It can be performed on any day for any reason but it is usually done on the full moon day orduring the waxy fortnight of the moon.It is believed that in Bengal, during the later part of 19th century, Satyanarayana puja took thename of Satya Pir puja, which was attended by all communities (Hindu, Muslim and Buddhists)and thereby building a common platform for all religions. It was a dream of religious unitythrough the vision of “One God”.