Sabari Vidyalaya

A small group of Lord Ayyappa devotees came together in 1965 to perform the yearly Ayyappa Pooja and in time thought of constructing an Ayyappa temple in Vadodara. They formed a trust in 1977 - Ayyappa seva Samiti - for the purpose but during the deliberations realized that the Barodians needed a good school more then they needed a temple. It is with this noble intention of service to the society that Ayyappa Education centre came into being. After the registration in 1978 they rented a two room kitchen apartment in Subhanpura but later had to shift to a bigger building near Atma Jyoti Ashram. The school was named Sabari Vidyalaya after the famous Sabarimala Temple. A temple for a temple indeed - A temple of Learning.