Swami Trigunatitananda (1865–1914), whose original name was Sarada Prasanna Mitra, belonged to a rich land-owning family and studied under Mahendranath Gupta at the Metropolitan Institution, Kolkata. He started visiting Paramahamsadev at an early age and took to major relief work when he became a monk. After Swami Turiyananda returned from California in 1902, he was asked to go to the San Francisco centre. The first Hindu temple in the West was built under his supervision at San Francisco in 1906.