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The Ekalavya temple (Hindi: एकलव्य मंदिर) is the only Hindu temple in the world dedicated to Ekalavya of the Mahabharata. It is located in the Khandsa village of Gurugram, Haryana, India. It is built atop the spot where Ekalavya cut his thumb and offered it to Guru Drona as Guru Dakshina. His thumb was buried in this ...
A temple dedicated to Ekalavya in Khandsa is present in a village in Sector 37 of Gurugram city in Haryana state of India. As per folklore, this is the only temple of Ekalavya and it is the place where Ekalavya cut his thumb and offered to guru Drona. [12]
The Sri Meenakshi Temple Society was established in 1977. The land for the temple, a five acre site, was acquired between 1976 and 1978. A plan for the site was drawn up by Ranjit Banerjee, a professor of architecture at the University of Houston. The temple's first permanent structure was a Ganesha temple.
This temple, originally the sole Hindu temple serving the northern part of Greater Houston, was scheduled to open in 2011. The temple, built for $3 million, is located in a 10,000-square-foot (930 m 2 ) stone exterior building on an 8-acre (3.2 ha) plot of land along the Woodlands Parkway.
The temple materials were carved out of Italian marble and Turkish limestone by 3,000 craftsmen in various parts of India. The pieces were shipped to Houston, and construction began in March 2002. 175 volunteers, including some individuals resident in India, came to the Houston area to help build the temple. Most of the labor was donated.
Ekalavya Temple, Hindu temple in Haryana, India; Eklavya University, university in Damoh, Madhya Pradesh, India This page was last edited on 5 ...
The first center, Buddha's Light Temple (佛光寺), was completed in 1984 in the Almeda area of southeastern Houston. However, the Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Chinese, and other Asian communities were largely closer to the Bellaire area of south-west Houston, and in 1989, the Jade Buddha Temple was constructed in that area to be closer to the core ...
Texas Guandi Temple. The Texas Guandi Temple is located in East Downtown. [27] The temple was established in 1999 by a Vietnamese couple, [28] Charles Loi Ngo and Carolyn. [29] They decided to build a temple to Guan Yu (Guandi) after surviving an aggravated robbery, [29] which occurred at their store in the Fifth Ward. [29]