A Hindu temple that devotees say was 115 years in the making opened Sunday in southwest suburban Homer Glen.

Since 1967, the Vivekananda Vedanta Society has been in Hyde Park, but growing membership, lack of parking at the old site, an increasing percentage of members who live in the suburbs and a desire to fulfill the teachings of Swami Vivekananda led the society to build a new temple, said society spokesman Frank Parlato.

Vivekananda — famous in India for a speech he gave at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and his push back home for independence, work that reportedly inspired Mohandas Gandhi — referred in his writings to a “universal temple” that would teach meditation and the spiritual discipline of yoga to anyone from any faith for free, said Parlato, a practicing Hindu.