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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.
Shree Swaminarayan Temple, Chicago, IL is a Swaminarayan Hindu temple located in the Chicago suburb of Itasca. [1] Opened in 1998, it comes under ISSO of the Nar Narayan Dev Gadi (Swaminarayan Sampraday). [2] It was built at the cost of $10 million, reportedly the most expensive Hindu temple in the Midwest at that time. [3]
A building on a four-acre plot of land was acquired in Glen Ellyn, a suburb of Chicago. In 1984, Pramukh Swami Maharaj consecrated murtis in the building and inaugurated the first Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in the Chicago area. [6] Within several years, the number of devotees outgrew the mandir in Glen Ellyn.
Sep. 12—Mirchi is now open in downtown Hamilton as the Indian restaurant expands the city's culinary diversity. The restaurant marked its opening on Thursday at 250 High St. with a ribbon ...
Sri Krishna Sweets was established as a restaurant in 1948 in Coimbatore. Its founder was N. K. Mahadeva Iyer who wanted to produce "pure ghee sweets" at home and market them. In 1972, he opened a separate sweet shop at R. S. Puram to retail sweets. As the sweet shop did good business, other branches were opened in different parts of Coimbatore ...
The Saravanaa Bhavan restaurant in Edison, New Jersey, U.S., near New York City, is the largest and busiest branch restaurant outside South India.. Saravanaa Bhavan, previously Hotel Saravana Bhavan, is an Indian restaurant chain based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. [1]
International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), commonly referred to as the Hare Krishna movement, is a Gaudiya Vaishnava Hindu religious organization.It was founded by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada [2] on 13 July 1966 in New York City.
Sid Sriram was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu to a Tamil Hindu family. He moved with his parents to California at the age of one, growing up in Fremont.His musical skills were nurtured by his mother, Latha Sriram, a Carnatic music teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. [5]