Board of the Hindu Temple Society of Southern California-President: Nadadur Sampath Kumar Secretary: Giridhar Athreya Treasurer: Venkateshwar Rao Bramharouthu Vice President: Jayashree Manohara (as of 2021)[1]
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.[2] During the early 1990s, Dr. Parameswar Mahadevan, an atomic physicist and one of the individuals involved in the Temple’s founding, served as president.[3] Later, and until his death in July 2017, Indian American tax consultant Nadadur Vardhan served as the temple's president.[4][5][6] Nadadur S. Kumar is the current president of the temple.[7]
The temple has two complexes – the upper complex with Venkateswara as the presiding deity and the lower complex with Shiva as the presiding deity. In addition to the presiding deity, both complexes have shrines for other deities.[8]
Notable visitors
In January 2006, the pop-star singer Britney Spears had her 4-month-old son blessed in a large ceremony by the Hindu priests of this temple.[9][10] Congressman Brad Sherman also spoke at the temple on a few occasions.[6]
