Our pious land of Bharat, India, is Deva Bhumi, which houses temples and places blessed by numerous saints, pious men and devotees. 

Sri Krishnaraja Pura Agrahara (S.K.P. Agrahara), old Sosale, is a small village on the eastern bank of the river Cauvery. It is thirty-two kilometers from Mysore (In Karnataka, India), for long the celebrated capital of the royal family of Mysore Wodeyars, and now an important tourist center in south India.  

SOSALE is about two kilometers from the sacred Sangam where the three rivers Cauvery, Kapila, and Spatika Sarovara mingle. For centuries, this region has cradled many scholars and pious people. Now most of their progeny have settled in distant cities and abroad. 

The Srinivasa Venugopala Swamy temple located in the heart of S.K.P. Agrahara houses the beautiful deity of Lord Srinivasa in its inner sanctum. Historians believe that the idol was donated nearly 400 years ago, in early 1600 AD, from “Anegundi”, a district in Karnataka near Hampi, the fabulous capital of Vijayanagar Empire. The processional deity is Venugopala Swamy.

This temple, which was for long the central hub of cultural and social life of this area, had fallen into a state of neglect and despair. Shastras say that renovating an old temple is equivalent to building a hundred new temples. 

The temple has now been revived into its past glory with the help of renovation projects over the last two decades, led and executed by the Trustees and devotees of Srinivasa Seva Samithi Charitable Trust (SSSCT). The Trustees are people who directly or indirectly owe their lineage to this village of Sosale. 

In addition to reinstating the lost glory to the temple in the blessed village of S.K.P. Agrahara, the SSSCT has also contributed operationally and financially to the health and welfare of the village and the villagers by improving their education, public health, sanitation, environment, old age assistance and maintenance of the infrastructure.

After having achieved the initial objectives of the trust in the last 22 years, a new website has now been created as a part of Vision-2030, to further improve and maintain the social and cultural atmosphere of S.K.P. Agrahara and its neighborhood by taking an active agenda of service to the local people in both cultural and social spheres.