Parvati Parameshwara Temple also known as New England Siva Temple is registered as Non-Profit religious and charitable Organization (Section 501(C)(3)) in State of Massachusetts. Parvati Parameshwara Temple Inc. is setup to practice and promote highest values of Hindu Vedic Culture by following principles of Advaita Vedanta, a School of Hindu Philosophy as prescribed by Jagadguru Sri Adi Shankaracharya. Our organization strongly believes in Charitable and humanitarian community services, an essential contributor to the successful performance of Vedic Dharma.
Mission Statement:
Parvati Parameshwara Temple Inc. is setup to practice and promote highest values of Hindu Vedic Culture by following principles of Advaita Vedanta, a School of Hindu Philosophy as prescribed by Jagadguru Sri Adi Shankaracharya. Our organization strongly believes in Charitable and humanitarian community services, an essential contributor to the successful performance of Vedic Dharma. We are committed to conduct charitable activities such as medical aid, relief to people affected by natural calamities, organize shelters to the homeless, anna-daana (feeding) to the destitute. To translate, print, publish or distribute books, periodicals and literatures to promote the goals and objectives of the organization. We are also committed to sponsor or support Vedic, cultural, educational, religious, spiritual or charitable activities or organizations in the United States or abroad.
Head Priest – Pandit Sri Bhavanarayana Dendukuri:
Veda is the fountain head of Indian spiritual, religious, philosophical, and cultural thoughts and actions. The current interpretations of the Vedas and other Indian spiritual texts is strongly influenced by one of the greatest spiritual master, Sri Adi Shankaracharya. His spiritual concept of Advaita (monism) defines the religious underpinning of a majority of the nearly one billion Hindus the world over. Sri Bhavanarayana Dendukuri is a spiritual and religious master of the Vedas and the Advaita based philosophical teachings of the Great Guru Adi Shankaracharya.
Sri Bhavanarayana Dendukuri underwent rigorous Vedic and spiritual training in Machilipatnam from 1988 to 1990 at Sangha Veda Patashala operated by the Kanchi Kamakoti peetam based in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, India. For the period from 1990 to 1994, he underwent tutelage in the many religious scriptures, philosophy and spiritual thoughts under his paternal grandfather, who
was a recognized spiritual master, in Kashi, India. From 1994 he trained in Hyderabad until the year 1999, and during this time, he passed the Vedic examination conducted by the Guntur District Veda Sabha in the year 1996. Subsequent to this, he was active in the Vaidika community in Hyderabad where he was involved in many community religious, spiritual, secular activities from
2000 to 2007.
In 2007, Sri Dendukuri came to the Flushing Temple (first Hindu temple to be founded in North America). He gained experience in maintaining and running a temple in North America at the Flushing Temple. In 2008 he transferred to Chicago at the Lemont Rama Temple where he remained until the year 2012. In 2012, he moved to the Greater Boston area and started the Parvati Parameshwara Temple in Lowell, MA. The non-profit charitable organization was registered in the year 2012. In the year 2015, the temple moved to 546 Main St in Groton, MA and continued there until 2022. On February 18th 2022 Temple moved to its current location 255 Great Rd, Littleton, MA.