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Vedanta Society

TIME : 2016/2/18 11:54:13

Meandering the Marina, you'll pass Mexican-inspired art deco, Victorian mansions, generic bay-windowed boxes – and, hello, what's this? A riotous 1905 mishmash of architectural styles, with red turrets representing major world religions and the Hindu-inspired Vedanta Society's organizing principle: 'the oneness of existence.' The society founded a new temple in 1959 but its original architectural conundrum remains.