More than one year back we officially started Kolkata Dham Darshan services at ISKCON Kolkata in order to cater to the requests of many devotees who wished to visit the holy places related to our very dear Srila Prabhupada in his birth place Kolkata. Since then the response of devotees has been tremendous and till now more than 2000 devotees from different parts of the world have availed our services. During the historic and grand 50th year anniversary celebrations of Srila Prabhupada's Jaladuta Yatra at Kolkata we had organized Kolkata Dham Parikrama and around 500 devotees participated in this including the devotee delegates from more than 106 countries of the world.
Now that Gaura Purnima festival is approaching closer and many devotees from the world will be visiting Mayapur we take this opportunity to invite all to Kolkata for Parikrama. Devotees can come and stay at our temple guest house for a day or two and complete the parikrama. The details of various places devotees can visit is mentioned below
a) Srila Prabhupad's birth place: The same jackfruit tree under which SrilaPrabhupada took birth is still there.
b) Motilal Seal School: Prabhupada did his schooling here.
c) Scottish Church College: Srila Prabhupada studied in this college. d) Radha Govinda Mandir: Srila Prabhupada used to visit this temple regularly in his childhood, e) Khidderpore Dock: Srila Prabhupada departed for America in Jaladuta ship from here,
f) Ultadanga Junction Road: Srila Prabhupada met Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur for the first time etc. (The list is very long!!!). We are offering the facility to organize guided tours to these holy sites for visiting devotees. Devotees wishing to avail of our services in this regard can contact us via mail at avdas@iskconkolkata.com. We request devotees to inform us well in advance to help us serve them our best.
We suggest that Devotees, while going to Mayapur, can take opportunity to derive transcendental benefits of visiting these holy places. For booking rooms at our guest house please email at guesthouse@iskconkolkata.com Besides this, nearby Kolkata, There are several places associated with of pastimes of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Nityananda Prabhu; such as Panihati (The famous dahichida festival took place here), Khardaha (House of Nityananda Pr ) etc.. If devotees wish,
we can assist them to visit these places as well. Besides this we have also provide car and bus rental services from Kolkata for various places like Mayapur, Panihati, Ganga sagar and other holy places in and around Kolkata and devotees may take advantage of this facility as well. ISKCON Kolkata owns luxurious AC and non AC buses and cars. Every Wedenesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday we operate regular bus service to Mayapur and devotees in India can book their seats online at our website www.tourmayapur.com (as of now we cannot accept foreign donations through this website). The donations received through these activities directly goes to temple. Devotees can also visit our facebook page www.facebook.com/Kolkatadhamyatra to go through the experiences of many devotees who availed Kolkata Dham
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