The Shree Siva Soobramaniar Temple was the fourth temple built in Mount Edgecombe. The temple, which was built close to the Ganesha temple, was commissioned to another builder in 1912. He was the famous Kothanar Ramsamy Pillay, who hailed from a South Indian village, called Pudukkottai near Thanjavur.

Kothanar Ramsamy Pillay’s unique design was a barrel shaped architectural dome with five kalsams on the pinnacle of the temple. The original murthies (statues) in the moolastanam (sanctum) were made of cement and replaced with black granite stone murthies of Vellie, Muruga and Devayanie – imported from India in 1950. The original cement statues were placed in the moolastanam. Pillay built the architecturally designed dome and the moolastanam only.

The sugar mill’s builders, led by D. Govindsamy, rebuilt the sanctum and verandah in 1950. Brick and asbestos were used in revamping the temple. The cost of the renovation at the time was ten pounds (twenty rand).