My Return to the TOVP
Thu, December 02, 2021
Dear Friends, Yesterday, after more than four months of absence, I finally returned to Sridham Mayapur. Burning with impatience this morning I went to the construction site of the TOVP, accompanied by our Construction Manager, His Grace Premavatar Gauranga prabhu, who showed me the various directions in which work is now underway. We bowed to
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Painting the Dome Brackets
Wed, August 02, 2017
After viewing the installed Kalashes and Chakras, Sadbhuja and Rangavati prabhus have decided that the Dome brackets which hold the Kalashes in place need a color adjustment to match the gold color of the titanium nitrate Kalashes and Chakras. They have created a new design which includes painting sections of the Dome brackets gold. To
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Visit from Vilasini dd
Sun, May 05, 2013
Our head architect from Pune was recently in Mayapur for some meetings with the TOVP staff. Below is an account of her time here and the progress she made with the Art Department. Every 10am in Pune, I open my window peering as far as I can into the construction and design of TOVP as
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A Visit from Ambarisa Das
Wed, December 05, 2012
The past couple of weeks at the TOVP have been busy with visits from senior devotees, architects from Pune and now Ambarisa Prabhu. Ambarisa Das is the chairman of the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium and regularly visits Mayapur. However, this was a special trip as he brought his wife, Svaha Devi Dasi, and his
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Turkey Marble
Thu, May 10, 2012
A week ago Sadbhuja Prabhu took a trip out to Bodrum, Turkey, to visit a white marble quarry. He had been to Turkey marble mines before and was always impressed with the quantity of marble they had on hand; It’s unbelievable to see the size of the mines and the mountains being excavated”. This time
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Kavala and Thassos Island Quarries, Greece – Marble Research (Following Sadbhuja Das through Europe)
Fri, July 30, 2010
This the third installment of my trip – the final leg of my journey after Turkey and Macedonia was Greece. The reason I kept Greece until last was because I thought Greece had the purest and a higher quality of white marble. But after having seen the Turkish and Macedonian Marble, I’d have to admit
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Prelip Mines in Macedonia – Marble Research (Following Sadbhuja Das through Europe)
Thu, July 29, 2010
This post is about the marble quarry I visited in Prelip, Macedonia. (If you want to see a larger version of the photos, please click on them.) When I first heard of pure white marble being available in Greece, Turkey and Macedonia, I was a bit skeptical of Macedonia, as I was born there, and
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