Malibu Hindu Temple is a

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built in the traditional

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style, and dedicated to the worship of the

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. It is located in the

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, in the city of Calabasas near Malibu,

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Overview

The founding president of the Temple was Vasan Srinivasan, a civil engineer living in the Los Angeles area. Srinivasan was instrumental in raising funds from local families, overseeing construction and bringing the priests from India. During the early 1990s, Dr. Parameswar Mahadevan, an atomic physicist and one of the individuals involved in the Temple’s founding, served as president. Later, and until his death in July 2017, Indian American tax consultant Nadadur Vardhan served as the temple's president. Nadadur S. Kumar is the current president of the temple. The temple has two complexes – the upper complex with Lord

as the presiding deity and the lower complex with Lord

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as the presiding deity. In addition to the presiding deity, both complexes have shrines for other deities.

Notable visitors

In January 2006, the pop-star singer

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had her 4-month-old son blessed in a large ceremony by the Hindu priests of this temple. Congressman

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also spoke at the temple on a few occasions.

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