Project Details
- Project Name
- Karya Siddhi Hanuman Temple Tower, Frisco
- Architect
- Epsilon Architecture
- Client/Owner
- Karya Siddhi Hanuman Temple
- Project Scope
- New Construction
- Size
- 900 sq. feet
- Year Completed
- 2019
- Shared by
- Tim Konganda
- Team
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Epsilon Architecture, Architect
Epsilon Master Builders, Construction Manager
Charles Gojer, Structural Engineer
Sthapathi Thangam Subramaniam, Artisan/ Indianization Designer
- Consultants
- Architect of Record: Epsilon Architecture
- Project Status
- Built
- Room or Space
- Exteriors
- Style
- Historic
Project Description
The Karya Siddhi Hanuman Temple, one of the largest of its kind in the western hemisphere, is located on a ten-acre site in Frisco, Texas. The Temple and the Monumental Entrance Tower is designed in unique traditional south Indian Temple architectural style, which originated almost 2000 years ago in India. The design of the Temple and Tower is based on the “Agama Shastras”, or treatise on Hindu Temple architectural design, passed down for generations.
The 72’ tall, six-level, “Rajagopuram”, meaning monumental entrance gateway, serves as the main entrance to the Temple, oriented along the east-west axis. The main entrance, facing east, per temple design principles, allow the first rays of the morning sun to fall on the Sanctum Sanctorum. The Tower has windows centered along the vertical axis at each level, allowing sunlight to pass through the Tower. The tower capped with a barrel-vaulted cupola and gold finials serves as a beacon and landmark.
Symbolically, the Rajagopuram represents the feet of the temple’s presiding deity, Visitors humbly bow with positive thoughts, discarding ego, before entering the temple. The campus brings people together through prayer, meditation, yoga and social service to the Dallas-Fort Worth community.
