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The San Francisco Bay Area has the second-largest Indian-American population in the United States after the New York metropolitan area. [1] The Bay Area Asian Indian population is primarily concentrated in the Santa Clara Valley, with San Jose having the highest population of Asian Indians in raw numbers as 2010, while Cupertino, Dublin, Fremont, Pleasanton and San Ramon have the largest ...
The Pew Research Center estimated that as of 2015, about 1.7 million adherents of Hinduism live in the United States. The Hindu population of the United States is the eighth-largest in the world. Ten percent of Asian Americans, who together account for 5.8% of the U.S. population, are followers of the Hindu faith.
Old Vedanta Society Temple. a.k.a. "Old Temple". San Francisco. 37°47′53″N 122°26′03″W / 37.79809°N 122.43430°W / 37.79809; -122.43430 (Old Vedanta Society Temple) Unique building, constructed in 1906, the first Hindu temple in the United States. The Vedanta Society of San Francisco was established in 1900 by Swami ...
e. Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (born Robert Hansen; January 5, 1927 – November 12, 2001) was an American Hindu religious leader known as Gurudeva by his followers. Subramuniyaswami was born in Oakland, California and adopted Hinduism as a young man. He was the 162nd head of the self claimed Nandinatha Sampradaya 's Kailasa Parampara and Guru at ...
The temple survived the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, [22] [24] but in 1914, a "demented follower had exploded a homemade bomb in the Hindu temple, fatally injuring Trigunatita". [25] There was a series of swamis in charge until Swami Ashokananda took over in 1932 and continued until his death in 1969. [ 26 ]
Vivekananda became the catalyst for establishing the Vedanta Societies, the first Hindu group in America in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Vivekananda sent Swami Saradananda from India to assist him in the work of his Vedanta Society and deputed him to New York first and then toured many places in the US giving lectures. In ...
37.7950°N 122.4354°W. / 37.7950; -122.4354. Inaugurated. April 1900. Owner. Ramakrishna Mission. The Vedanta Society of Northern California is a Hindu spiritual organization headquartered in San Francisco, founded by Swami Vivekananda in 1900. [ 1] It is notable for having built the first Hindu temple in the Western hemisphere.
The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), known colloquially as the Hare Krishna movement, is a Gaudiya Vaishnava Hindu religious organization. It was founded on 13 July 1966 in New York City by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. [ 2 ] Its main headquarter is located in Mayapur, West Bengal, India.