Welcome to Vishnu Mandir in Richmond Hill.

Richmond Hill is situated in Ontario province of Canada. If you are a new visitor to our web site or have not visited this temple, we would like to introduce to you this great temple of North America. Vishnu Mandir runs a variety of programs to promote and sustain the Hindu culture and its values. Voice of the Vedas Cultural Sabha Inc.was founded in 1977 and incorporated in 1979.

The Vishnu Mandir started as a little house in 1981 by a few supporters from Guyana and Trinidad. By March of 1984, the small version of the Vishnu Temple was completed. At the Temple site, we used to have our Diwali Melas where over 15 thousand people attended.

Today, we have expanded our Temple to about 30,000 square feet. When we came to Canada, there were no Temples and we used to worship in school auditoriums. We then decided that we must preserve our dignity, heritage and Dharma and as such, we embarked on the building of the first architecturally structured Hindu Temple in Canada.

Today on our grounds, we have a 20-foot Bronze Mahatma Gandhi statue in its own little Peace Park.

Founding Members

Cyril Patraj Singh (Deceased)
Dr. Budhendra Doobay
Mr. Harry Panday (now lives in FL)
Betty and Yogi Bharratt
Dr. Krishna Persaud
Jaisar Girdhar
Ricky Vedant Persaud
Leila and Dyanand Ramedehalchand
Sine Ram
Gansham Singh
Ben Sennick

Long Standing Members

Mrs. Sahodrie (Betty) Prashad (deceased)
Naraindra Prashad
Peter Pulastya Persaud & family
Harry Singh
Pandit Vishnu Sharma (now lives in Tampa)
Ben Sennick
Suresh Prashad (Aunty Rukmin's son)
Kapil Karandat
George Jaipargas
Tulia Rupchan
Champa & Boyon Dookoo
Sahadeo & Minawati Singh & families
Esar & Savi Persaud
Shamdai Singh
Victor Singh
Leila & Robin Singh
Arjune Persaud
Deo & Leila Persaud
Ramesh Ramotar
Vishnu Sookar
Ratan Prashad
Mr & Mrs Chetram Bissoon
Sammy Manoo (one of the first treasurer)
Poornima & Sachi Singh
Parbath Sood