Nandi´s imposing Hindu temple, Sri Siva Subramaniya

Though not widely understood, nearly a third of Fiji´s population are mostly Hindu descendants of indentured laborers brough from India to work on sugar plantations in the late 19th and early 20th century. So they´ve had a Hindu temple in Nandi since more than a century ago, and in 1986 replaced it with this structure, the largest Hindu tample in the Pacific, constructed according to the principles of Tamil and Vastu Vedic tradition. 

Read more in my post An Introduction to the South Pacific Paradise that Is Fiji

 

Salman Javed

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