First All-Stone Hindu Temple Outside India

July 1, 2007

Source: The Times of India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/First_all-stone_Hindu_temple_outside_India/articleshow/2164160.cms

WAILUA (HAWAII): In a clearing within Kauai Aadheenam's lush gardens, the ping, ping, pinging of metal chipping at stone can be heard as a half-dozen artisans from India put the finishing flourishes on the Hindu monastery's legacy for the ages.

Hand-carved in granite and shipped in pieces to the island from India, the Iraivan Temple is faithful to the precise design formulas defined by South Indian temple builders a thousand years ago. The $8 million temple of Lord Shiva is the first all-stone Hindu temple outside of India, according to the Kauai monks. The project is a rarity.