Religion Sugar Land-area Hindu temple now home to third largest statue in the U.S. The statue depicts Hanuman, a Hindu deity, who is shown as a human figure with a monkey’s face.

As many as 25 members of a local church protested against the newly unveiled 90-foot bronze statue of Hindu god, Lord Hanuman, at the Sri Ashtalakshmi Temple in Sugar Land, roughly 35 km from Houston.

The statue Pattanaik is referring to is a 90-foot-tall Hanuman statue that was inaugurated during a grand Pran Pratishtha ceremony in Houston, Texas, on Sunday, August 18.

The 25-foot tall statue was created in a small town in southern India, traveled to New York by ship, and then by flatbed to Delaware, to the state's largest Hindu temple.