 The location was moved from a students apartment to the basement of St. Luke's Church.In 1976, the location was moved to the nave and later to the Synod House of the cathedral of St. John the Divine.She was one of the founding members of the Hindu (Ganesh) Temple in Queens, NY, the first traditional Hindu temple in North America.Hilda also taught Robert Hansen, the later Shaivite "satguru/jagatguru" (spiritual/world teacher) Sivaya Subramuniyaswami as a teenager.