Skanda Vale Temple in United Kingdom

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Skanda Vale Temple
Type	temple
Founded	1970
First elephant arrived	1981
Address	Skanda Vale, Llanpumsaint
Zip-code	SA33 6JT
Place	Carmarthen, Wales
Country	United Kingdom
Website	Website
Facebook	Facebook
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Owner

Zoological department
Elephant department
Elephant management	Free Contact, since

Record history
History of updates	2025-03-17: FC

Latest document update	2025-03-17 13:54:35
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Description

Skanda Vale Temple, located at Skanda Vale, Llanpumsaint, in Carmarthen, Wales, United Kingdom , was founded in 1970 and the first elephant arrived in 1981

Skanda Vale Temple elephants are managed in Free Contact .

Living elephants

At the Skanda Vale Temple lives 2 elephants with records in this database: (detail list)

♀ Lakshmi born 1966
♀ Valli born 1980

Comments / picturesIn 1981, President Jayawardena of Sri Lanka presented Skanda Vale temple with a baby elephant in appreciation of the help he was giving to Sri Lankans in Britain through the establishment of the multi-faith Temple.

She was born in the wild but orphaned as a baby. People found her being sheltered by a Herd of water buffalo, who are usually sworn enemies of elephants! Those water buffalo took her in and looked after her, until she was taken by people to a very famous elephant sanctuary in Sri Lanka.

She lived there for a little while, before the Sri Lankan President of the time decided to give her as a gift to Guru Sri Subramanium, the founder of Skanda Vale. So she came to Skanda Vale, and arrived as a little elephant in 1980. Since then, she has been cared for by the Community alongside so many other animals.

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References for records about Skanda Vale Temple

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2025). Skanda Vale Temple, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=712. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

https://www.skandavale.org/about/elephants/#:~:text=Living%20with%20us%20in%20Skanda,a%20day%20in%20our%20woodlands.

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