Sri Dattatreya Yoga Centre (Karya Siddhi Hanuman Temple)

On the west coast of Trinidad near Carapichaima, not far from the island’s other well-known Hindu landmark, the Temple in the Sea at Waterloo, stands the Sri Dattatreya Yoga Centre, home to an 85-foot murti (statue) of Hanuman in his Karyasiddhi (‘accomplisher of tasks’) form — among the tallest Hanuman statues anywhere outside India. The centre’s naming and the specific ‘Karya Siddhi Hanuman’ form of the deity strongly suggest an affiliation with the Datta Peetham tradition associated with the South Indian guru Sri Ganapathi Sachchidananda Swamiji, whose movement has built similarly named temples elsewhere, including in Texas; a large chanting event associated with that guru’s following is documented as having taken place at Carapichaima in 2016. Independent confirmation of the site’s founding year and founding history was not available in this pass, and this entry should be treated as provisional pending fuller sourcing. The centre serves Trinidad’s large Indo-Caribbean Hindu community, descended largely from nineteenth-century indentured laborers from India, as both a site of daily worship and a landmark pilgrimage destination.