Upcoming temple opening and installation

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Dear Devotees,

 

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

 

We are happy to announce the installation of Sri Sri Krsna Balarama and

inauguration of Their new temple. The festival will begin on the 13rd with

Vastu Puja, and culminates on Balaram Jayanti, which is the 15th of August.

 

The temple started in 1980 as a simple farm project on an empty plot of land

in the beautiful countryside of eastern Mauritius, overlooking the Indian

Ocean. During the course of the years, as more support was coming forth from

the pious inhabitants of Mauritius, the project expanded to include a

traditional Bharatpur-style temple.

 

In 1994, the Ananta Sesa was placed in the ground to support the temple

itself, and it took six years to complete the construction. The temple is

embellished with red sandstone imported from Karoli, Rajasthan, the same

type as found in the Radha Govinda temple in Vrindavan. The dome is entirely

clad in white marble, and a beautiful Sudarsana Chakra (exact replica of the

one in Jagannath Puri) graces the 70-foot high dome.

 

We request the blessings of the worldwide community of Vaisnavas for the

successful completion of this project, which is the culmination of 25 years

of ISKCON in Mauritius.

 

We hope this temple will have the same spiritual potency as other major

ISKCON temples around the world, inspiring the Mauritian people to become

more Krsna conscious and thus fulfill Srila Prabhupada's prediction that

Mauritius can become the first Krsna conscious country in the world...

 

We also invite all ISKCON devotees to visit us and enjoy darshan of Sri Sri

Krsna Balaram in Their new temple! We will be posting photos of the

installation ceremony and Their Lordships in the next few days.

 

Your servants,

 

Sriniketana Das

Arjuna Das