ISKCON TEMPLE

Location : Hari Krishna Hill, East Of Kailash, South Delhi
Built In : 1998
Dedicated To : Lord Krishna
Built By : Hare-Rama-Krishna Cult Followers

Built in 1998, the temple complex of Iskcon stands at Hari Krishna Hill, Sant Nagar Main Road, East of Kailash. The magnificent temple has 'Shikharas' at a height of 90-feet above the ground level. The hall of the temple is centrally air-conditioned with a capacity to accommodate about 1,500 people.

The temple is dedicated to Lord Krishna and was built by the Hare-Rama Hare-Krishna cult followers. This complex is elegantly built and is one of the largest temple complexes in India. The main attraction of the temple is the Robot who enacts and preaches the Gita.

There are beautiful paintings of Russian artists on the different past times of Radha Krishna, Sita, Ram, Laxman, Hanuman and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Special programmes like Kirtan, Aarti, Pravachan and Prasadam are held every Sunday between noon to 3.00pm.

The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) was initially raised as a spiritual society in New York to Propagate the message of the Bhagwad Gita. It was founded by Swami Prabhupada. In India there are about 40 ISKCON temples.

Other Famous ISKCON Temples In India

ISKCON Temple, Bangalore, Karnataka The ISKCON Temple was built recently by the International Society for Krishan Consciousness. As you climb the granite steps you will encounter three small shrines before the main temple. The three idols of Lord Krishna in the main shrine are made of brass.

ISKCON Temple, Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh Upon his return to Vrindavan in 1977 Prabhupada entered into Samadhi Mandir (memorial) in his honour. It is located within the premises of the Krishna-Baldev Temple in Vrindavan. Beautiful paintings depicting the life of Lord Krishna adorn the galleries leading to the main temple. ISKCON devotees from various parts of the world can be spotted manning the library or ISKCON book stalls and partaking in temple rituals with gay abandon. At Vrindavan the ISKCON society also runs a boarding school on the lines of a Gurukul with classes being run from I to VII. A Gurukul is a holistic kind of educational system whereby students and teachers live in the same complex so students may learn by observing the teacher. There are guest houses for devotees within the premises so they may take part in the day to day activities of the temple.

ISKCON Temple, Chennai, Tamil Nadu: In 1976, a few devotees headed by His Holiness Giriraj Swami, a senior Sannyasi disciple of Srila Prabhupada began ISKCON preaching activities in Chennai setting up a small unit. In 1983 ISKCON Chennai established a temple and ashram at 232 Kilapuak Garden Road. Deities of Sri Sri Krishna Rukmini Satyabhama were donated to ISKCON by a life patron and worship of these deities began. Soon Sri Sri Jagannath Baladev Subhadra deities were brought from Puri and installed at Chennai. Small Utsava Murtis of Lord Chaitanya and Lord Nityananda were brought from Sridham Mayapur after a long search for beautiful perfectly made deities. Wooden deities of Sri Sri Gour Nitai about 2 feet high were made in Chennai.

ISKCON Chandradoya Mandir, Mayapur, West Bengal This is the international headquarters of ISKCON. Plans are underway for construction of the largest temple built in India in the last 200 years, at a cost of over 100 million dollars. Surrounded by: a Vedic city, the temple will include a Vedic Planetarium. At the present time there is a temple, various guest house facilities, Srila Prabhupadas Puspa Samadhi, the rooms where Srila Prabhupada lived, a hut where Srila Prabhupadala stayed, a Gurukul school, a Goshala (dairy), and beautiful gardens. The main Deities are Sri Radha Madhava. The Deities are larger than life-size. There are also eight Gopis, four on each side of Radha-Madhava. Also on the main altar is a small set of Radha-Krishna Deities. On the left altar are Deities of the "Pancha-Tattva-Advaita Acarya", Lord Nityananda, Lord Chaitanya, Gadadhara, and Srivasa Thakur. To the left of this altar is another altar with an impressive Deity of Lord Narasimha.