Two acres of ground in Ramanagara District, held for stillness since 2012.
On 29 October 2012, in the auspicious Dhanur Lagna Puskaramsa, the Pratisthapana homa was performed as statues of Sri Dattatreya and Sri Shirdi Sai Baba were formally installed at SDSSC. The 5.5 ft Sai idol was carved from a single block of Australian marble; before it ever reached Bengaluru, it was carried to Shirdi and placed before Sai Baba himself to seek his blessing.
Today SDSSC is recognised as the largest Shirdi Sai temple in South Bengaluru — 45 kilometres from the city centre, along Kanakapura Road.
Revered as a unified embodiment of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, Dattatreya is regarded in tradition as the first teacher of yoga — a guru who learned from twenty-four ordinary teachers, among them the earth, the sea, and a spider, showing that wisdom is available to anyone paying attention.
Shirdi Sai Baba is widely understood by devotees as an incarnation of Dattatreya, which is why the two are worshipped together at SDSSC.
Sai Baba lived in the small village of Shirdi in Maharashtra, where his teaching rested on one line: "Sabka Malik Ek" — one God governs all, regardless of the name a person calls Him by. He asked nothing of caste or creed, only of sincerity.
His two enduring instructions to devotees were simple: Shraddha (faith) and Saburi (patience). Both are still the quiet discipline asked of anyone who visits SDSSC today.
A stepped tower marks the entrance, drawing the eye — and the visitor — steadily inward toward the sanctum.
Craftsmen from Tamil Nadu carved and set every granite block by hand, following centuries-old temple proportion.
Wide courtyards let in light and air, so the temple is never a closed room — always connected to the sky.