The Bhumi Puja (ground-breaking ceremony) for the construction of a new temple at Naperville by ISKCON is scheduled to be held on Sunday, May 21. The new construction commences with the goal of achieving completion of Phase I by January 2018. A Krishna Prasadam lunch will be served on this occasion.
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the new temple will be a center for disseminating the message of Bhagavad-Gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam, in pursuance of the great desire of Srila Prabhupada (Founder-Acharya of ISKCON). The spiritual teachings are aimed to free mankind from the sufferings of material existence and help people find everlasting peace and happiness in Krishna Consciousness that will be delivered in a modern context to people irrespective of color, nationality, background or gender,.
The new temple will host a deity alter with Sri Sri Radha Shyamasundar. The temple will conduct seminars, workshops, expanded Sunday school programs for children’s education, summer and winter camps for children and young adults and congregational outreach programs for spiritual education in different languages.
The new temple will be equipped with a certified kitchen and a snack bar and will serve vegetarian cuisines. A community hall in the temple complex will cater to social events, such as, birthdays, weddings, graduation ceremonies, etc. The new temple will facilitate an expanded prasadam distribution program to the community.
Health & wellness sessions on yoga, health fair and screenings, etc will be a regular feature in the program offerings besides a Gift Shop specializing in ethnic clothing, books, music and devotional paraphernalia, in the temple complex.
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ISKCON celebrates its fifty years of existence among 650 centers, temples, schools and colleges worldwide. ISKCON Naperville, that is conveniently located off Route 59 and I-88 in Naperville, IL, took on the noble mission to establish a new temple building at its current location. ISKCON Naperville has grown into an ardent congregation of hundreds of devotees and continues to serve the spiritual needs of the community with the undeterred focus on spreading the ethos of Vedic spirituality.
By Premji
