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New Vrindaban is an unincorporated area and an ISKCON (Hare Krishna) intentional community located in Marshall County, West Virginia, United States, near Moundsville. [3] The town consists of 1,204 acres (4.87 km 2) (0.1 km² of which is water), [4] and several building complexes, homes, apartment buildings, and businesses including the Sri Sri Radha Vrindaban Chandra Temple (RVC Temple) and ...
Kirtanananda Swami [1] (IAST: Kīrtanānanda Svāmī; September 6, 1937 – October 24, 2011), [2] also known as Swami Bhaktipada, was a Gaudiya Vaishnava guru, the co-founder of New Vrindaban, a Hare Krishna community in Marshall County, West Virginia, where he served as spiritual leader from 1968 until 1994, and a convicted criminal.
Notable centers include Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple (Spanish Fork), Utah, New Raman Reti in Alachua, FL, [162] and The Radha Kalachandji Temple in Dallas, TX. [163] Hare Krishna-affiliated full-time communities include New Vrindaban in West Virginia, [164] and Gita Nagari Eco Farm and Sanctuary in Pennsylvania. [165]
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.
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Malati's responsibilities, as one of the 32 GBC global secretaries, include overseeing the activities of ISKCON in the US (Florida, Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the New Vrindaban community in West Virginia), [36] which she visits twice a year. [2]
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 most elaborate temple arts of Krishna is found in a series of Krsnayana reliefs in the Prambanan Hindu ... West Virginia; Vrindavan Chandrodaya Temple; Jagannath ...