The lake also played a key role in the shrine's unlikely escape from the Palisades fire, as a family of three devotees used its waters to extinguish threatening flames. Self-Realization Fellowship ...

A visitor restroom and a property housing 7 SRF monks were reduced to ash, but Lake Shrine’s spiritually historic legacy sites remained intact in the fire, which engulfed large parts of Pacific ...

Even as, just 20 feet away, the Lake Shrine museum and bookshop with artifacts from Yogananda’s life still stands. The living quarters of the 14 monks who reside on the property also took a hit.