One of the few places in Pittsburgh that is part of an excursion tour for the members of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s delegation is the imposing Sri Venkateswara Temple.
This is one of the earliest Hindu temples built in the US, dating back to 1977, and has been modeled on the famous Tirumala Tirupati Devastanam in Andhra Pradesh over a huge expanse of 3.5 acres.
The temple is as old as the Ganesha temple at Flushing in New York City which is generally thought to be among the oldest in the US at the site that originally belonged to the Russian Orthodox Church.
The Venkateswara temple, which sees some 100,000 visitors seek the blessings of the deities every year, is located on the immediate outskirts of Pittsburgh – called Penn Hills in the state of Pennsylvania.
