Shri Jagannath Puri Temple
The Shri Jagannath Puri Temple is a provincial heritage site in Inanda (eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality) in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.
In 1979, it was described in the Government Gazette as
23m high tower (shikhara), single entrance capped by an octangenal squat shape and a dome...This richly ornamented temple was constructed by Pandit Shiskishan Maharaj, a Hindu priest who immigrated to South Africa in 1895. The temple, surrounded by a moat, was dedicated to the Hindu God Jagannath.
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- Hindu temples in South Africa
- Temples dedicated to Jagannath
- Religious buildings and structures in South Africa
- Buildings and structures in KwaZulu-Natal
- EThekwini Metropolitan Municipality
- Hindu temple stubs
- South African building and structure stubs