The main deity of the temple had been Sri Sithi Vinayakar. As Vinayakar (Tamil), in Sanskrit named Ganesha, is the remover of all obstructions and prayed to before starting new enterprises, the name was well chosen as the first Tamil Hindu temple in Switzerland. Due to an increase of the rent, the temple closed in summer 2004 and merged with the two other temples existent since the late 1990s in Basel.