The founding president of the Temple was Vasan Srinivasan, a civil engineer living in the Los Angeles area.

Srinivasan was instrumental in raising funds from local families, overseeing construction and bringing the priests from India.

[2] During the early 1990s, Dr. Parameswar Mahadevan, an atomic physicist and one of the individuals involved in the Temple’s founding, served as president.

[3] Later, and until his death in July 2017, Indian American tax consultant Nadadur Vardhan served as the temple's president.

[8][9] In January 2006, the pop-star singer Britney Spears had her 4-month-old son blessed in a large ceremony by the Hindu priests of this temple.