🕉️ Temple in the Sea Waterloo
Trinidad and Tobago
About This Sacred Site
The Temple in the Sea at Waterloo is one of the most remarkable Hindu temples in the Caribbean, originally built single-handedly by an indentured laborer named Siewdass Sadhu in the 1940s. When denied permission to build a temple on land, he walked into the sea and constructed one offshore from mud and stone. After the original washed away, a permanent temple was built in the 1990s on the same spot as a monument to devotion and the Indo-Trinidadian community.
Key Facts
- •Originally built single-handedly by Siewdass Sadhu who waded into the sea
- •Sadhu was denied permission to build on land due to colonial discrimination
- •The current permanent temple was completed in the 1990s on the same location
- •Stands on a promontory extending into the Gulf of Paria
- •A powerful symbol of the determination and faith of the Indo-Trinidadian community
Location
Coordinates: 10.4086, -61.4031
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