It was the first Swaminarayan temple to be built outside the Indian subcontinent as well as the first on the continent of Africa.Pictorial images of Swaminarayan were consecrated in India and were then shipped to Nairobi in 1945. In 1957, Acharya Maharajshree Tejendraprasad Pande (in his Pre-Acharya status) on behalf of his father (who was then Acharya), visited the temple for the first time and installed images of Swaminarayan in the ladies section.
Sri Mariamman is the oldest and most important such temple in Thailand.
