White Marble Has Arrived

The marble we ordered from Vietnam has just arrived! We will be using it for the inside and outside finishing work. Checking out the marble we noticed how flawless it was. It is completely up to our expectations and we can’t wait to see it glimmering on the beautifully finished temple.
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Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaja Blesses the ToVP

His Holiness Gopal Krishna Goswami visited the offices and site yesterday, March 6, and walked the whole length of the temple observing the progress and giving critical critiques. Here is a photo shoot of him and Sadbhuja Das discussing the future of Mayapur Dham.
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Festival Season Arrives

For this year’s festival, almost five hundred devotees from around the world had gathered, and Prabhupada – while taking his morning walk in the nearby fields, while entering the temple of Radha-Madhava, or while lecturing from the Caitanya-caritamrta – was the central attractive feature. Each morning after giving the class, he would circumambulate the temple
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Photographer of Srila Prabhupada, Yadubara Das reveals

Yadubara das met Srila Prabhupada in December, 1970, in Surat, India. He was doing his masters degree in photography on the subject of the origins of Krsna Consciousness in India. Yadubara prabhu had come with several cameras and pretty soon His Divine Grace allowed him to accompany the traveling party for 2 months. From the
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Kingdom of God

The Mayapur city, Prabhupada said, would be the fulfillment of the desires of the previous acaryas. The city would grow to a population of fifty thousand and would become the spiritual capital of the world. With its gigantic temple in the center and separate quarters for brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas, and sudras, the city would be
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Interview with Badrinarayan Das

Badrinarayan Prabhu began attending Srila Prabhupada’s Sunday feast lectures at the old Los Angeles temple in the summer of 1969 and in 1970 moved into the Laguna Beach, California temple. Soon there after, he was sent to the new (Watseka) temple in Los Angeles to take care of the gardens. Srila Prabhupada was staying in
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Welcoming Entrances

Here is a 3D rendition of the different entrances surrounding the temple. The main entrance will be looking straight at the temple from the Jalangi River, and to the East, another entrance will be from Tarunpur Road. In these pictures you can also see the view from the Grhasta community, and a birds-eye-view of the
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Let There Be a Temple

It was midnight. Srila Prabhupada sat on a pillow behind his low desk, his light the only one on in the building. All the other devotees were in bed. On the desk before him rested the dictating machine and a volume of Srimad-Bhagavatam with Bengali commentary. A small framed picture of his spiritual master, Bhaktisiddhanta
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Saraswati Puja Pandal

Still while India constantly celebrates festivals, they continue to use our ToVP design for their pandals! The design has become immensely popular in West Bengal and here is an example that was made this past week in Navadwip. This pandal shows an almost exact replica of our temple and we are so joyful to see
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