By Partha Dasa and Uttama Dasi
After 109,512 arotikas, 328,560 sticks of incense, and over half a million food preparations offered, Sri Sri Radha Madana-mohana marked the 50th anniversary of Their installation in a grand 3-day festival in Vancouver, Canada.
On Saturday morning, courtesy of Golden Dancer (Caitanya Mahaprabhu) Tours, devotees took a historical bus tour of the early temple locations in Vancouver.
At the site of one of the first temples in Vancouver, Bala Krsna Dasa related how sankirtan history began here with ISKCON’s first traveling sankirtan party. The first harinam was held at the legendary corner of Georgia and Granville, where it has continued since the late 1960s. Devotees also visited the location of the Raymur Street temple which was formerly dilapidated and surrounded by a junk yard in 1969. Kala related how he and his wife drove there for the free feast on one cold dark evening. He took one look at the building and said, “There is not way I am going in there.” Shortly after, he received some of Prabhupada’s books on the street and ironically moved into that ramshackle location the next year.
Read more: https://iskconnews.org/50th-anniversary-of-sri-sri-radha-madana-mohana-in-vancouver-canada/
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