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Malibu Hindu Temple is a Hindu temple built in the traditional South Indian style, and dedicated to the worship of the Hindu god Venkateswara. It is located in the Santa Monica Mountains , in the city of Calabasas near Malibu , California .
The Sri Venkateswara Temple, Pittsburgh, inaugurated on June 8, 1977, and the Hindu Temple Society of North America in New York, consecrated on July 4, 1977, became the first Hindu temples in the U.S. built by Indian immigrants. In the 1980s and 1990s, temples were built in nearly all major metropolitan areas.
The site of the present day Lake Shrine was once part of a 460-acre (1.9 km 2) parcel of land in the Santa Ynez Canyon, called Bison Ranch. After an initial daily lease arrangement, it was purchased by the silent film producer and director Thomas H. Ince in 1912 to serve as his studio that was developed into an expansive network of sets.
The campus' centerpiece is a larger temple, called the Akshardham, which measures almost 90,000 square feet, reaches 191 feet into the sky and was made from 1.9 million cubic feet of marble and ...
Built and dedicated in 1956, the Santa Barbara Vedanta Temple is located on a 45-acre (18 ha) property situated between the foothills above the City of Santa Barbara and below the peaks of the Santa Ynez Mountains. [2] The temple has a clear view overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the Channel Islands of California. [3] [4] The Vedanta Temple is ...
The largest Hindu temple outside of Asia has opened this weekend in New Jersey, built by 12,500 volunteers. The massive structure prompted a lawsuit and has brought up questions about the line ...
Head toward it, and you arrive at the largest Hindu temple in the U.S. and among the largest in the world. The BAPS Swaminarayan Akshardham temple at 112 N. Main St. – open Wednesdays through ...
The monastery was originally developed in 1942 during WWII by Gerald Heard, [1] [2] [3] [4] a disciple of Swami Prabhavananda of the Vedanta Society of Southern ...