About

After nearly twenty-five years of tireless effort, patience, great sacrifices, determination, and financial support from dedicated members of the Ottawa Tamil Hindu community, the long-held dream of establishing their own Tamil Hindu temple finally became a reality through the grace of the Almighty. On April 29, 2007, the National Capital Region of Ottawa welcomed a new cultural and spiritual landmark with the inauguration of the Ottawa Tamil Hindu Temple. The event began with a Bhumi Puja (land purification ceremony) and the laying of the temple’s foundation stone before an enthusiastic gathering of well-wishers. Since then building had been renovated to be a Hindu temple for placement of statues of Hindu deities to be procured. A grand consecrating ceremony (Kumbabishekam) of the temple in the acquired place was held from July 11th to July 15th 2007 in the presence of many local community leaders, well-wishers, religious personnel and more than 500 devotees. Since then; the temple is serving as a place of worship and sanctity, where the Hindus are fulfilling their religious obligations of worship, gathering place for community seniors, learning place for children and community social activities for the people of Ottawa.

The Ottawa Sivan temple is a non-profit and a registered charitable organization administered by a board elected by devotee volunteers. The temple finances solely dependent on donations by devotees for the benefit of the community. After years of operation, it has become necessary to expand the temple premises to accommodate the many needs of the community. Much has to be done and with the grace of almighty we hope to have subsequent expansion and upgrading to accommodate larger congregation of the expanding population of Ottawa community. We trust that this temple will quench the spiritual and cultural thirst of the Tamil Hindus for generations to come.

• To promote the religious, social-cultural activities and the spiritual well-being of the Saiva community;
• To preserve, promote and further the religious traditions and the cultural heritage of the Saiva community in Ontario and to provide a unique center of worship and pilgrimage in North America
  dedicated to the Saiva deities;
• To establish, perform, conduct, and maintain in the Temple regular public worship, nitya naimittika
  poojas, rites, festivals, observances, and other religious ceremonies usually or traditionally conducted in Saiva Temples, in accordance with the doctrine tenets and procedures written in Ottawa Sivan Temple pooja manual as prescribed by the scriptures, saiva agamangkal and saiva siththanthangkal. The dates of special events will be based on vakkia panchankam calendar;