The first building constructed specifically as a Hindu temple on Long Island is set to open this weekend in Melville, culminating a decades-long effort and giving the Indian community a centrally located religious home for the faithful in Nassau and Suffolk counties.
The 49,000-square-foot temple, constructed by the BAPS organization on a five-acre plot on Deshon Drive, will be dedicated on Sunday…9th October 2016.
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