ISKCON Temple, Chennai

The ISKCON Temple in Chennai, also called the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Mandir, stands at Hare Krishna Land off the East Coast Road near Sholinganallur. ISKCON's founder, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, visited Madras in 1972 and 1976 and asked his followers to build a temple here, but land was found only in 2000, at Injambakkam. Work began in 2002, funded by donations from Chennai and some 8,000 life patrons, and the deities were installed on 26 April 2012.

Designed under Bhanu Swami, the temple draws on Pallava and Kalinga architecture, and a Sudarshana Chakra tops its tallest tower. It rises on five levels, with a prasadam hall in the basement, an auditorium on the ground floor and a 7,000 sq ft temple hall above. Three teak altars there hold Radha and Krishna with Lalita and Vishaka, Chaitanya with Nityananda, and Jagannath, Baladeva and Subhadra, with images sourced from Jaipur and Odisha. At the entrance a marble floor depicts the universe as described in the Puranas.