Sri Venkateswara Temple
A temple to Lord Venkateswara in Penn Hills, outside Pittsburgh, built in the style of the great temple at Tirupati. It is the oldest Hindu temple in the United States built by Indian immigrants, and draws pilgrims from across the Northeast and Midwest.
- Where
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- Grade
- Local gem
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site
- Coordinates
- 40.4412, -79.8050
Get the Sri Venkateswara Temple stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Sri Venkateswara Temple. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Pennsylvania volume with your photos and a note.
Near Sri Venkateswara Temple
Fallingwater 66 km
A house by Frank Lloyd Wright built partly over a waterfall on the Bear Run stream, in the Laurel Highlands of southwestern Pennsylvania. It was a weekend retreat for the Pittsburgh store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. and his wife Liliane, and has been open to visitors since 1963.
New Vrindaban 91 km
An ISKCON community in the hills of West Virginia, founded in 1968 under the guidance of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and named after Vrindavan in India. Its centrepieces are the Sri Sri Radha Vrindaban Chandra Temple and Prabhupada's Palace of Gold.
Gettysburg National Military Park 230 km
The fields, ridges and woods where the three-day Battle of Gettysburg was fought in July 1863, preserved across some 1,500 hectares. Monuments line its roads, and in the Soldiers' National Cemetery Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address.
Shenandoah National Park 246 km
A long, narrow national park along the Blue Ridge Mountains, with the Shenandoah Valley on one side and the Virginia Piedmont on the other. Skyline Drive follows the ridgeline for its whole length, and Hawksbill Mountain, its highest point, reaches 1,235 metres.
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center 264 km
The National Air and Space Museum's huge hangar beside Dulles Airport, built for the aircraft and spacecraft too big for the museum on the Mall. Under one roof are the Space Shuttle Discovery, an SR-71 Blackbird, a Concorde and the Boeing 367-80.
Hersheypark 267 km
A theme park founded in 1906 by Milton S. Hershey as a leisure park for the workers of his chocolate company. It sits in Hershey, the company town where even the streetlights are shaped like chocolate kisses, and today is packed with roller coasters.
Cedar Point 268 km
An amusement park on a Lake Erie peninsula, open since 1870 and known as America's Roller Coast. Its 18 roller coasters tie it for the most of any park in North America, many of them rising along the lake shore.
Letchworth State Park 287 km
A state park that follows the Genesee River for about 27 kilometres through a deep gorge and over several large waterfalls, south of Rochester. Its sheer cliffs and falls have earned it the name Grand Canyon of the East.
More hidden gems in Pennsylvania
Questions
Where is Sri Venkateswara Temple?
Sri Venkateswara Temple is in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Fallingwater (66 km), New Vrindaban (91 km), Gettysburg National Military Park (230 km).
How do I get the Sri Venkateswara Temple stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Sri Venkateswara Temple and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Pennsylvania volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Sri Venkateswara Temple before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Pennsylvania volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
Collect your first stamp.
LOQAH is free on iPhone and Android, in India and 20 more countries, with more countries on the way. Stand at a place, collect its stamp, and keep every trip in a passport that grows.