Shri Babu Praimsingh - Founder of Praimsingh's Pooja Bhavan

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Babu Praimsingh (1890-1956) founded Praimsingh's in the 1940s when he left his home in Bihar, India and came to TT after spending years travelling back and forth from places such as Natal (a city in east Brazil), South Africa, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela. He married and settled in Tacarigua before moving to Curepe, establishing Praimsingh's as the nation’s first pooja store. This was the first store of it's kind offering a "one stop shop" service for the Hindu community.

Back then the store started as a popular shop, selling local home-made snacks. As he got older, his thirst for knowledge grew. He took several trips to India and he began sharing his Hindu faith through his shop, selling religious books and pictures. As popularity among pundits, intellectuals and people in the neighbourhood grew Praimsingh’s expanded its inventory with brass items, pooja materials and other East Indian goods.

The love for East Indian culture and spirituality was carried on through generations to Ajeet Praimsingh who took over the business in 1979 from his mother Popo “Iron Lady” Praimsingh, Babu’s daughter-in-law.