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The lectures started drawing hundreds, precipitating a search for a permanent gathering place. In 1985, the group created the Bharatiya Temple Society of Central Ohio. It purchased an old home at 3903 Westerville Road in Columbus, renovated it, and installed Hindu deities in it. On December 6, 1985, the building was inaugurated as the Bharatiya ...
The Vedanta Society built its first temple, called the Old Temple, in North America in San Francisco in 1905. [Note 1] [1] [2] [3] This temple has evolved into a bona fide Hindu temple. [Note 1] Through the 1930s and 1940s, Vedanta Societies were also established in Boston, Los Angeles, Portland, Providence, Chicago, St. Louis, and Seattle.
In 1983, the temple reopened at 379 West 8th Avenue, its current location. [17] By 1986, membership had grown to about sixty. In the same year, the temple hosted a three-day Festival of Chariots on the Ohio State campus to promote Krishna Consciousness and Indian culture. [18]
The first Vedanta Society, the Vedanta Society of New York, was founded by Swami Vivekananda in November 1894 on his first trip to the West. [5] [14] In 1897 Vivekananda sent Swami Abhedananda to lead the organization. [7] On Vivekananda's second trip to the west he founded the Vedanta Society of Northern California in San Francisco. [15]
In other parts of the world, especially in Europe, Canada, United States, Japan, and Australia, the work is mostly confined to the preaching of Vedanta, the publication of books and journals and personal guidance in spiritual matters. [5] Many of the centres outside India are called as the 'Vedanta Society' or 'Vedanta Centre'.
In other parts of the world, especially in Europe, Canada, the United States, Japan, and Australia, the work is mostly confined to the preaching of Vedanta, the publication of books and journals and personal guidance in spiritual matters. [48] Many of the centres outside India are called as the 'Vedanta Society' or 'Vedanta Centre'.
Divine Life Society [2]: 200–01 Divine Light Mission [2]: 384 Gaudiya Math. Gaudiya Mission; Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti; Gita Press; Hanuman Foundation [2]: 178 [3]: 1013 Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy [2]: 183–84 [3]: 1014 Hindu Aikya Vedi; Hindu American Foundation [4] Hindu Council UK [5] Hindu Council of Russia
The Vedanta Society was responsible for building the earliest temples in the United States starting in 1905 with the Old Temple in San Francisco, [47] [48] [49] but they were not considered formal temples. [50] The earliest traditional Mandir in the United States is Shiva Kartikeya Temple in Concord, California.