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	Iraivan temple - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The San Marga Iraivan Temple is a white granite stone Hindu Śaivite temple being built in Kauai, Hawaii.
		It is the first stone-carved temple built for at least a century and the first built in the West.
		It was envisioned by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami and is cared by the Saiva Siddhanta Church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iraivan_temple (96 words)

	San Marga Iraivan Temple
		While the temple won't be dedicated until $16 million is raised, already being set aside as an endowment to operate and maintain the temple in perpetuity is 50 cents of each dollar donated.
		The temple is being financed solely by donations, church officials said, with $6 million of the total $16 million required already raised from 8,000 people in 55 countries.
		The temple's backdrop is Mount Waialeale (the wettest place in the world, receiving more than 10 meters of precipitation annually) and the lush Wailua Valley, just kilometers from the beaches of South Pacific fame, and time-shares with some of the highest trading values in the world.
	www.himalayanacademy.com /ssc/hawaii/iraivan/iraivan_in_the_news (4306 words)

	Acharya Ceyonswami speaks on Iraivan Temple
		It is not just another temple, like many temples around the world being built for this generation out of concrete and may not last 300 hundred years.
		That temple may not last another 500 hundred years, we don't know, because it is built of concrete bricks.
		So, Iraivan Temple is being built for our future generations, a place for pilgrimage, not really a place for going to everyday.
	www.templebuilder.homestead.com /Iraivan.html (1376 words)

	www.hindu.org - Temples & Ashrams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Hindu Temple Society of Capital District, Albany - The Hindu Temple Society of Capital District, Inc. located in Loudonville, NY is a place of worship for local devotees of the Hindu religion.
		CHANT - A non-profit temple society near Dallas, Texas since 1985, started by Caribbean Hindus to continue the culture and worship of their forefathers who migrated to the Caribbean from India in the 19th century; in process of building a temple.
		Shiv Shakti Mandir, Mauritius - A Shiva temple in Mauritius with 8 murtis - Santoshi Maa, Shiva Parvathi, Ganesha, Karthikeya, Durga Maa, Vishnu, Nandi Devta, Ram Parivaar, Radha Krishna, Shiv Lingum and Hanuman.
	www.hindu.org /temples-ashrams (3138 words)

	Artha Enterprises - Building Material, Granite Countertops, Granite & Other Natural Stones
		IRAIVAN, "He who is worshipped" is one of the oldest words for God in the ancient Tamil language.
		From the beginning, the temple, located at the foot of an extinct volcano on the northernmost of the Hawaiian Islands, was conceived to be as rare as the vision that birthed it.
		The Americas already had Hindu temples but this was destined to be unique, a hand-carved, white-granite edifice to be brought stone by stone from India, to reflect the ultimate in craftsmanship and design and to be surrounded with as beautiful a setting as the paradise island could allow.
	www.worldstonex.com /en/SF/Artha/AboutUs.asp (354 words)

	PRESS RELEASE: San Marga Foundation Stones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It is a temple, in short, that is both a celebration of unity and an affirmation of diversity.
		The temple is located on the banks of Hawaii's most sacred river, the Wailua, at the international administrative headquarters of Saiva Siddhanta Church, the first Hindu Church on planet Earth founded in 1949, in Wailua Homesteads, five miles from Mt.
		S n Marga Iraivan Temple is a sanctuary in the center of Kauai's Hindu monastery.
	www.hindunet.org /alt_hindu/1995_Apr_1/msg00001.html (3013 words)

	Hawaii Health Guide - Healthtalk
		Iraivan Temple's supervising architect, Shanmugam Sthapati, and his team of silpis (stone carvers) recently completed the construction of the north chinna gopuram (small tower).
		The south Indian Chola-style temple is being built with hand-quarried granite by over 70 stonemasons in India and then shipped to Kauai where artisans complete the stone fitting and construction.
		It is alongside the sacred Wailua River, leading to the top of Mt. Waialeale, that this place of pilgrimage is being built, a temple of kaivalya, granting freedom from the past and a vision for the future.
	www.hawaiihealthguide.com /healthtalk/display.htm?id=183 (479 words)

	Saiva Siddhanta Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Behind him are Kauai's volcanic jungles on the church's hearquarters and the white granite Iraivan temple.
		It is based on the precepts of the Nandinatha Sampradaya, and led by Gurus from the two thousand year-old lineage of the Kailāsa Paramparā.
		The name of the Church is from the Sanskrit language and could be roughly rendered in English as "The Church of God Śiva's Revealed Truth."
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saiva_Siddhanta_Church (199 words)

	Hinduism Today \| Iraivan \| January/February/March, 2002
		Within a few hours of their arrival at the Iraivan Temple work site in Kauai, they were blasting 1,300°F heat from a four-foot-tall furnace they crafted themselves out of old fire bricks and river mud.
		While the hand-carving of granite stones for Kauai's Iraivan Temple has been going on in Bangalore full force since 1990, the arrival of those stones and the necessary carvers qualified to fit and assemble them in Hawaii was a significant event.
		In another historic move, master musicians specializing in playing the tavil and nagaswaram (South Indian temple drum and horn) were flown to Kauai for the duration of the festival to perform during temple pujas as well as at the open house.
	www.hinduismtoday.com /archives/2002/1-3/44-45_iraivan.shtml (584 words)

	The Hindu : Sculpting a temple for exotic shores
		The concept of Iraivan Temple as it is named, was evolved by Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, who planned it in the island of Kauai, which is called by the same name in ancient Tamil Saivite texts.
		The blueprint for the temple follows Hindu "aagama" traditions with a flagpole, an entrance gopura and mantapa with musical and sculpted pillars, the main shrine with a gold-covered gopura and smaller shrines.
		The people behind the temple have received guidance from the sculptor Ganapathi Stapathi who helped to assemble the craftsmen from different parts of Tamil Nadu.
	www.hindu.com /lf/2004/06/24/stories/2004062412420200.htm (352 words)

	San Marga Sanctuary & Iraivan Temple, Kauai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The beginnings of the Iraivan Temple can be seen in the distance from a point on the grounds of the San Marga Sanctuary.
		The stones for this temple are hand-cut by craftsmen brought from India.
		A portrait of the founder of the Iraivan Temple and San Marga Sanctuary.
	www.pihanakalani.org /gkauai/iraivan.htm (258 words)

	India4u - News Online
		The Ganesha temple in Nashville, Tennessee, has a Shiva lingam or icon that is said to have appeared on its own on the bed of the holy river Narmada in central India.
		It is arguably among the world's most expensive temples at the cost of $16 million and the figure may rise by the time the construction is completed, which is on for the past 15 years.
		The S.V. temple, as it is popularly known, was built in 1976 at an approximate cost of $925,000.
	www.india4u.com /india4unews/newsview.asp?ID=3669 (641 words)

	India Today
		An ambitious undertaking is the building of the Iraivan Temple on the 51-acre temple-monastery complex on a riverbank near the foot of an extinct volcano.
		This all-stone hand-carved granite temple is expected to take several years to complete and includes a 700-pound quartz crystal lingam, the largest six-sided, single-pointed crystal ever found.
		Temple stones are being handcarved in India by 75 sculptors at a village outside Bangalore, the only such facility in India for sculptors and their families with Internet access and a retirement programme.
	www.india-today.com /itoday/20020107/na-culture.shtml (1139 words)

	Kaua'i temple rising with rock of ages - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		San Marga Iraivan Temple, rising on the grounds of the 33-year-old Saiva Siddhanta Church monastery, is built of Indian white granite and formed by Indian stonemasons.
		The heart of the temple has a special chamber that will contain a 700-pound crystal called the Sivalingam, which now is in the monastery's smaller Kadavul temple.
		San Marga Iraivan is a $16 million project, with half going to the construction and half to an endowment to run it.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2003/Jul/31/ln/ln03a.html (850 words)

	IRAIVAN - Sacred Temple Architecture on Hawaii. Documentary Feature.
		This traditional art form is being practiced today in the construction of the Iraivan temple on the paradise garden island of Kauai, in Hawaii.
		All 3 million pounds of the temple are being hand-carved, 15,000 miles away, in Bangalore, India, before being assembled by a team of artisans on Kauai.
		Ganapati Sthapati, the film takes you from the vision that inspired the construction of the Iraivan temple through the logistics and challenges facing this daunting task while shedding light on the science behind an ancient art form.
	www.islandfolks.com /imp/iraivan/iraivan_film.htm (334 words)

	Nectar in stone getting ready for Hawaiian home
		When completed, the 3,067 stones would be shipped to the temple site in the Hawaiian island where the San Marga Iraivan temple is being constructed by Satguru Sivasubramania Swami under the supervision of Dr. Ganapathi Sthapathi, the Chennai-based chief architect of the temple, who constructed the 133-foot Thiruvalluvar statue in Kanyakumari.
		After the Thanjavur Shiva temple, this will be the second temple in the world where the capstone is carved out of a single granite piece weighing about 12 tonnes after completion.
		The Iraivan temple is located at the foot of an extinct volcano on the banks of Wailua river on the northern-most of the Hawaiian islands.
	thehindubusinessline.com /businessline/2000/02/26/stories/18264401.htm (607 words)

	INDOlink - Diaspora - The Hinduization of America
		Narayanan explained: “While all temples go through formal ceremonies of vivification with pitchers of sanctified waters, the devotees' songs promulgate the sacredness of the land; the terrain is now internalized in landscape of devotion.
		At Iraivan Temple in Hawaii, not only are the names reminiscent of India, but the similar environment of tropical India meshes with the local Hawaiian land to create a unique milieu.
		As expected, the Pittsburgh temple, the Barsana Dham in Texas, and the Iraivan Temple in Hawaii have become new pilgrimage destination for millions of Indians living in North America.
	www.indolink.com /displayArticleS.php?id=060305110343 (1778 words)

	Aloha Doctor - The Doctor's Picks
		Two traditional Saivite Hindu temples are located on the monastery's 458 acres, Kadavul Temple and the new San Marga Iraivan Temple, a massive white granite Chola-style temple currently being carved in Bangalore, India, and whose stones are now being shipped to Hawaii and are now being assembled here on Kauai.
		Right in the midst of the monastery complex is the renowned "Kadaval Nataraj Temple" where an exquisite six-foot tall, 150-year-old bronze image of Lord Nataraja is enshrined.
		Hindu pilgrims have been coming to the temple from around the world for over 30 years, to worship and seek audience and darshan with the Guru Mahasannidhanam.
	www.alohadoctor.com /properties.php?PropID=97 (567 words)

	Comparing Shaastra Vaastu (Vastu Vedic Tradition) and Mayan Architecture at Machu Picchu
		Sthapati was born in 1927 into a family whose ancestors, members of the aboriginal tribe of Viswakarmas, built the great temple at Tanjore in the 10th century ce at the request of Raja Raja Chola.
		He is responsible for the construction of dozens of temples in India, plus others in Chicago, Washington D.C., Kentucky, Boston, Baltimore, San Francisco, and Hawaii in the USA as well as in the UK, Singapore, Fiji, Malaysia, Mauritius and the Seychelles.
		The temple room at the top was also modular in design, with the wall thickness determining the size of doorways, location of columns, thickness of columns and the width and length of the structure.
	www.vastu-design.com /ht-article.htm (2645 words)

	Kauai : Attractions : The Coconut Coast \| Frommers.com
		Here, in this royal settlement, are the remains of seven temples, including a sacrificial heiau, a planetarium (a simple array of rocks in a celestial pattern), the royal birthing stones, and a stone bell to announce a royal birth.
		The San Marga Iraivan Temple is being built to last "a thousand years or more," on the 458-acre site of the Saiva Siddhanta Church monastery.
		In the making for years now and not expected to be completed until 2010, the Chola-style temple is the result of a vision by the late Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, known to his followers as Gurudeva, the founder of the church and its monastery.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/kauai/0011026673.html (1019 words)

	Press Release - Iraivan Film
		That these two - visionary and scientific artisan - would combine their talents and energies to design and construct a one-of-a-kind, artistically pure, hand-carved, all-granite Shiva temple in the middle of the south Pacific is quite remarkable.
		Also remarkable is that Shankar Nathan, a native of South India, would be on hand on Kauai at this very time to film and document this ancient, sacred craft taking place on the ancient, sacred grounds of Kauai's Hindu Monastery, at the base of Mt. Waialeale, in Kauai.
		Ganapati Sthapati, the film takes you from the vision that inspired the construction of the Iraivan temple through the logistics and challenges facing this daunting task while shedding light on the science behind this ancient art form.
	www.islandfolks.com /imp/iraivan/press_release_01.htm (362 words)

	Hinduism Today \| Dec 1998
		Iraivan is a big project, costing $16 million, which includes an endowment to support it forever.
		It is a temple made to last a thousand years, one you can return to lifetime after lifetime to enjoy.
		Fourteen million is yet to be raised before the temple is formally dedicated.
	www.hinduismtoday.com /archives/1998/12/1998-12-13.shtml (495 words)

	A glimpse into Hinduism - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		On an island where Buddhist temples are often found on thoroughfares and interspersed with Catholic and Protestant churches, and where Shinto shrines and Taoist temples are often set along the main drags, you have to go to the Neighbor Islands to see a Hindu temple — and it's still under construction.
		The San Marga Iraivan Temple, in the hills above Wailua, Kaua'i, is still six or seven years from completion, but a Hindu ceremony marks each stage of its "birth." The monks there consider the temple a living entity.
		There, the San Marga Iraivan Temple is being built stone by stone, each block of granite imported from India.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2004/Oct/10/il/il01a.html (1885 words)

	Hindu Temples in the United States....CuisineCuisine.com
		There is "The Council of Hindu Temples of North America" which acts as a center of resource for all temples including information on model bylaws, temple management, hiring of priests, etc. Contact them for help regarding the same.
		Construction on the $1.5 million temple will start this fall and is expected to be completed by next spring.
		It is one of the earliest Hindu temples to be built in the United States.
	www.cuisinecuisine.com /HinduTemplesinUS.htm (779 words)

	Iraivan Temple
		Seeing the intimacies of temple building, life at the aadheenam, and the aloha spirit is truly a rare gem.
		Here you will find Kauai's Hindu Monastery, home of Kadavul Hindu Temple, established in 1973 and the future site of San Marga Iraivan Temple.
		We invite you to visit this magical place which Hawaiians call Pihanakalani, "where Heaven touches the Earth," and meet the mystics behind the magic, Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami and the monastic order that was founded by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami ("Gurudeva").
	www.himalayanacademy.com /ssc/hawaii/iraivan (346 words)

	Hinduism in Cyberspace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Council of Hindu Temples - Hindu Temples in U.S. Maha Ganapati Temple Of Arizona, Maricopa City, AZ
		The Hindu Temple of Metropolitan Washington, Adelphi, MD
		Sri Ganesha Hindu Temple of Utah, Jordan, UT
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/backroyd/temples.html (518 words)

	The temple in the valley. \| Business (Regional) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Construction of a $4 million Hindu temple carries the promise of a new kind of visitor to Kauai.
		Their project: the $4 million San Marga Iraivan Temple, intended by its makers as a mecca of the Hindu world.
		With thousands of Hindu pilgrims expected to visit the temple annually after its completion shortly after the year 2000, Kauai should benefit from their needs for lodging, food and other tourist necessities.
	www.allbusiness.com /periodicals/article/513664-1.html (675 words)

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