The temple is famous for its association with the first pilgrimage to Ganga Talao, the sacred lake found in the center of Mauritius.

He had acquired the land of Jules Langlois, due to the failure of the sugar factory of Triolet.

He then demolished the 90 feet tall chimney of the factory, without knowing he was bypassing the laws concerning the historic monuments of Mauritius.

The Church of Notre Dame de La Salette is a case in Grand Baie.

When he brought the second "lingam" from Kashi, he organized a "Shobha Yatra"(a religious procession) from Port Louis to Triolet.

A major event associated with Pandit Shri Sajeebunlall Ramsoondur and the Maheswarnath temple is the beginning of the annual pilgrimage to Grand Bassin.

In fact, in 1897 Pandit Shri Jhummon Giri Gossagne Napal, a priest of Bois Pignolet together with Pandit Shri Mohan Prasad Pandey, a priest of Goodlands saw in a dream the water of the lake of Grand Bassin springing from the ‘Jahnvi’, thus forming part of Ganga.

The news of the dream spread rapidly and created quite a stir in the Hindu community and also reassured the Hindus about the sacred nature of the island and the futility of being in India at the time of death for Moksha.

Thereafter, people from all around the island started to follow this tradition of going for a tirthyatra (pilgrimage) with a "kanwar"(A bamboo structure covered with fabrics and decorated with ornaments-it also enshrines images of Hindu deities) to Ganga Talao to collect its holy water.

This pilgrimage remains an integral part of the Maha Shivratree festival and this tradition is unique to Mauritius.

Domes like this one were also used on Buddhist Stupa prevalent in India since the time of emperor Ashoka, or around the third century BCE.

However they were inaccessible mounds and it is with the arrival of Persian architecture through the Khalji dynasty that true free standing domes at major scales developed in India.

Here the style happens on a single building, the principal deity is towered by the main dome and an ornate amalaka stylised with floral designs topped with the kalash and trishul.