The First ISKCON Mayapur Gaura Purnima, February 29, 1972: 50th Anniversary Celebration
Sat, February 26, 2022
The first Gaura Purnima Festival at ISKCON Mayapur was celebrated on Srila Prabhupada’s order in 1972. Though not widely attended by International devotees, it set the standard for an annual festival that has since become the backbone of annual Vaishnava sanga and celebrations in Mayapur and Vrindaban attracting hundreds of thousands of devotees. This year
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Happy Gaura Purnima 2019 from the TOVP Team
Sat, March 02, 2019
On or around Gaura Purnima 2022 all of ISKCON will ecstatically celebrate together the Grand Opening of the magnificent Temple of the Vedic Planetarium at the World Headquarters of ISKCON in Sridham Mayapur on its 50th Anniversary, and our beloved Mayapur Deities will at last be moved into Their long-awaited new home. After twelve years
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Gaura Purnima and the ToVP, as told by Madhavendra Puri Das
Fri, March 16, 2012
I came into Mayapur in the early evening, via the train from Kolkata. I’d never arrived at this time but the dusty yellow lit scene was only a side thought in my mind. The horns, the calls and the rattle of bicycle wheels seemed insignificant in comparison to the new set of sounds. I gazed
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Festival Season Arrives
Fri, March 02, 2012
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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