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Welcome to the Vedanta Temple in Hollywood, California, USA.

The temple was completed and dedicated in
1938.

The Sanskrit syllable OM is depicted above
the front entrance.

The temple spires.

A side path to the temple. The building on the left is used by
Vedanta Press and Catalog.

Looking at the back of the temple.

This is the Greenhouse where the Vedanta Society of Southern
California began. In the late 1920s, it was the home of Mrs. Carrie
Wyckoff (one of the Mead sisters) who donated it to the Vedanta
Society.

Coming down Vedanta Terrace from Vine St. The building on the
left is the Greenhouse.

This room was originally built for Swami Prabhavananda, the
founder of the Vedanta Society of Southern California. Swami
Swahananda, our head minister, now lives here.

The monastery courtyard located next to the temple.

The monk's quarters.