Pooja room – or prayer room – is – and must be – one the most auspicious and sacred rooms of your home.

Making a pooja room vastu shastra compliant is a two step process.

The first step that you need to take is to locate the pooja room – obviously – in the most auspicious way.

  • Best Location – North East
  • 2nd Best Location – West or East

What you should follow:

  1. As per pooja room vastu, north-east corner of home is best site for pooja place.
  2. East and west are second best locations.
  3. Keep the pooja place on ground floor.
  4. In big plots or factories etc. construct pooja ghar at center; this is very auspicious.
  5. Keep the idols in east and/or west of the prayer room.
  6. Place the idols a few inches (at least an inch) away from wall.
  7. Make sure that all the idols are always in perfect condition.
  8. Have two shutter door of high quality wood for prayer room.
  9. Pooja Room can have doors and windows in north or east walls.
  10. White or light yellow colored marble work in prayer room makes it more auspicious.
  11. Use white, light yellow or light blue colors for walls of pooja room.
  12. You can place a lamp stand in the pooja room in south-east or eastern side.
  13. If the roof of pooja room is pyramid shape then it’s very auspicious.
  14. You can place an Agnikund in the prayer room in south-east corner.
  15. Keep showcases and almirahs towards west or south walls.
  16. Entrance of pooja place must have a threshold.
  17. If the prayer area is in kitchen then keep it in the north-east corner of kitchen; you should face east while praying.

What you should avoid?

  1. The pooja place should never be in south direction.
  2. Do not have pooja place in a store-room.
  3. Avoid pooja place in any bedroom. However if there is no option then use the north-east corner of the bedroom as pooja place (but remember this is the last and least favored option). Also remember that while sleeping or lying on bed your feet should not point towards this corner.
  4. Never make pooja room in basement or first or above floors.
  5. Do not have prayer place above, below or next to any toilet or kitchen.
  6. Avoid pooja room or place under a staircase.
  7. Idols should never face south.
  8. Do not chisel off the wall to make place for keeping idols.
  9. Never keep broken idols.
  10. Idols should never be directly in front of the entrance door of prayer room.
  11. Never keep the idols brought from old temples in the prayer room.
  12. Women should not enter the prayer room during menses.
  13. Scenes or photos of crime, battles or of any negative emotions are a strict “no” in the pooja place. Actually you must avoid them in your entire home.
  14. Do not hang photos of animals and birds in the pooja place.
  15. Never have photos of passed away people in the pooja area.
  16. Never keep a dustbin in the pooja place; it reduces positive energy of the room.
  17. No one should sleep in the prayer room (except if the prayer room is in bedroom).
  18. Don’t keep the items in the pooja area that do not belong there.
  19. Never ever – under any circumstance – conceal any money or other valuables in pooja place.