All About Communal Harmony - Christian Businessman Builds Siddhi Vinayaka Temple In Udupi

Gabriel Nazareth is a 77-year-old businessman. Catholic by faith, this man showed the way as far as communal harmony is concerned when he built a temple dedicated to Lord Siddhi Vinayaka for his Hindu brethren, as per The New Indian Express. Rs 2 crore was how much he spent to build it.

Gabriel did it in memory of Fabian Sebastian Nazareth and Sabeena Nazareth, his parents, on his land.

EPS

¡°I always felt blessed by Lord Siddhi Vinayaka since the time I became a devotee of the deity 60 years ago. I completed by SSLC in 1959 and went to Mumbai in search of a job. I was just 14 years old then and was staying near Prabhadevi in Mumbai. A little further was the famous Siddhi Vinayaka temple where I paid obeisance to the Lord every day,¡± he said.

A few years later, he started a metal dying workshop and became a successful entrepreneur.

AP

Sathish Shetty, a friend, said that he built it without any donations due to his devotion to Lord Siddhi Vinayaka.

Other than Shetty, Nagesh Hegde and Ratnakar Kukyan make up the three-member committee which handles the temple administration.