The Ayyappa temple came into existence in the year 1958 by the efforts of Swami Vimochananda ji who was initially from sabari mala hills and later settled at karuppaiyur village Trichy district tamilnadu. His efforts were fully assisted by Chettur Vishnu Krishnan Namboodri a great devotee of Bhagwan Ayyappa. A Trust was formed initially in the year 1964 by Shri Hariprasad Sharma to carry on activities of mandir in an effective manner for funds raising and management.
It was conveyed by family of Swami Vimochananda ji in later years that swami ayyappa himself gave dharshan to him and advised him to carry the vigraha of himself as present in Sabari malai to Hardwar in North india  a holy place and establish His aradhana there. Swamiji was helped by devotees to cast the vigraha in Tamilnadu and carried the vigraha to Hardwar .The place was un-experienced by him and immediately on arrival he was greeted by Shri Hariprasadji who identified the present site for temple construction and dharmstala for yatris then. It was also later emerged that the holy temple at sabari mala was burnt down by miscreants in a great fire in the forest and entire complex was rebuilt there. By that time hardwar temple was established and daily dharshan was ensured with regular puja and neivadyams. Later it was understood by all that it was divine will which anticipated the events at holy hill sabarimala and it wanted to spread the Ayyppa worship throughout India. This hardwar temple became the first temple outside the state of kerala and later guided establishement of temples at holytown of Kasi and many other places.
Initially chettur namboodri toiled singlehandedly to visit delhi and approached many good people to support his venture in building temple and dharamstalla. His untiring efforts saw the temple and aradhana has materialized soon. He was instrumental in laying down puja schedule and invited various people from various walk of life to visit and support the temple activities. The temple activities include celebration of mandalam puja, makara villaku, vishu celebration and veda parayanam,bhagawatha sapthaham,narayaneeyam recitation etc.,. The procession of Bhagwan ayappa makarasankranthi is noteworthy feature of town now. While many persons contributed by their leadership to the committee ,some of leading persons are, Shri AS Nambiar senior advocate ,Shri RC Poduval, , Shri MKD Namboodri Advocate who left indelible marks on the history of temple. Presently Shri Balakrishnan, Senior Advocate, Shri Chandrasekhar senior Advocate were continuously supporting the temple administration in various ways.