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From radio waves to temple domes: The unexpected journey of a Krishna couple in Utah
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The Shri Shri Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, Utah, on Friday, April 25, 2025. - photo by AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski
SPANISH FORK, Utah (AP) — Charu Das was in Los Angeles in 1980 when a for-sale ad for a small radio station in rural Utah County — about 50 miles south of Salt Lake City — caught his eye. Das and his wife, Vaibhavi Devi, have been longtime members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) also known as the Hare Krishna movement, a Hindu sect that worships Krishna as the supreme being. At $225,000, ownership of the radio station plus the parcel of land around it, seemed like a bargain to Das, whose dream at the time was to broadcast Krishna radio.