A woman who lost her fight to build a Hindu temple is planning to file a suit for religious discrimination.

The Forsyth County commissioners rejected plans for the Hindu temple in the Shady Shores neighborhood. Forsyth County Commissioners voted 5-0 to deny the proposal for a Hindu temple and priest residence in the Lake Lanier-area neighborhood of the Shady Shores.

Property owner Dr. Sumantha Satoor applied last summer for a permit to build an 11,200-square foot Hindu temple and priest's residence on 8 acres which she owns on the Pilgrim Point Road. Plans to call for 109 parking spaces. Hundreds of the residents have since turned out at various hearings to object to the plans.

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Commissioners said that the temple is wrong for the area. Satoor is going to the federal court.

Satroor also said that, "our claim in the lawsuit is that we should be considered equal to any other religious facility, like a church, like a mosque, like a synagogue.”

One commissioner said that he would have voted against any house of worship on the site.

Mrudula Duddempudi.