OCR Text |
Show Hindu Temple on Southern Campus There is a Hindu temple on tha campus of Florida Southern college, overlooking Lake Hollingsworth at Lakeland. Tha temple is a memorial memo-rial to the lata Frederick B. Fisher, who was a Methodist bishop in India, In-dia, and who brought it in pieces from Benares, India, to have it erected on the college grounds. Said to be the only imported Hindu temple tem-ple in tha United States, it is 25 feet high, 5 feet .wide and 9 feet long, weighing about 10 ton3. It is hand carved from red 6andstone, painted pure white and surmounted by the Christian cross. A reflecting; pool Iks in front of the temple and a garden of meditation is beautifully landscaped. |