Our Temple houses relics, artwork, and traditional religious objects. The provenance of many of these objects and artifacts trace from ancestral lakou (family compounds). In this eclectic environment cultivated by Lafontant and the vodouvi who serve here, contemporary works of art are installed next to sacred objects. Some artists have gone on to garner international recognition, including Myrlande Constant, Sébastien Jean, Frantz Jacques aka Guyodo, Ronald Edmond, Dubréus Lhérisson, and Frantz Zephirin, with work shown in Grand Palais (Paris), Musée du Quai Branly (Paris), Museum of Contemporary Art (Miami), and the Venice Biennial. Each piece of art takes on a sacred character, as they are often appropriated by the Lwa themselves. The pieces cannot leave the Temple without permission from the spirits.

The lakou, the living quarters of the temple, accommodates about fifteen people, including eight children from various backgrounds. All members have their personal activities, but they constitute an important nucleus in the day to day life of the Temple. Scores if not hundreds of people visit the temple on any given year to assist and dance at rituals, to consult with the various vodouvi there, to receive healing, or for initiation. 

In addition to being a traditional space of hospitality, the Temple is effectively a community center. It is also the headquarters of an all-women’s Rara music band, Forever Rara Fanm. University classes, museums, churches, and Haitian researchers have made virtual visits to the Temple (e.g. Wesleyan, U Penn, Moca Miami, Congregational Church of Old Lyme, etc.) The Temple and its community have been featured in several documentaries and films (CNN, BBC, TNT, National Geographic, SVT Kobra). The digital platform for Espas Milokan takes seriously the role of our Temple in teaching the wider world on our sacred way of life, and presents the objects for preservation, research, and education.