At least twenty devotees before installing deities Posted on September 2, 2015 by Bhakti Vikasa Swami Sanga Without twenty devotees how you can have Deities? Your men are coming and going so why you are having Deity installation? You must have twenty devotees. (From Srila Prabhupada's letter to Batu Gopala — Vrindaban 7 September, 1974)