Hindu temple in Stafford celebrates new cultural center, 20th anniversary The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir was built in 2004 using 1.3 million volunteer hours. Natalie Weber, Fort Bend County Bureau ...

Meanwhile, BAPS swamis and volunteers including Purav Patel, a first-generation Indian American who lives in the Houston metro, worked to ready the temple's campus to become a Fort Bend County ...

Father sues Texas Hindu temple, alleging it branded 11-year-old with hot iron. The father is asking for $1 million in damages due to what he says was permanent scarring from the branding ceremony.