Saturday, November 12, 2011

ISKCON Temple


                                    
ISKCON Temple is placed on Hari Krishna Hill, East to Kailash area in New Delhi. It was built recently in 1998 and is one of the most extravagant and transcendent temples of the city. An outstanding example of architecture, it sports 'Shikharas', rising a height of 90-ft above to ground level. The temple contains air-conditioned hall that can easily hold 1,500 people at once. The fine art paintings by Russian artists here illustrate lives and events related to Hindu traditional characters, like Sita-Ram, Radha-Krishna, Laxman, Hanuman and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

Every Sunday afternoon, Special pastorals and prayer meeting are held at the temple dedicating to Lord Krishna mainly, the aristrocatic temple was built by the followers of 'Hare-Rama Hare-Krishna' religion. It is one of the largest sophisticated temples in India, it also exaggerates of a Robot, which was built especially to constitute and admonish ‘Gita’. The everyday temple timings are 4.30am to 12:00pm and 4.00pm to 9.00pm. There is a museum inside the temple which constitutes multimedia shows to explain the philosophy of Ramayana and Mahabharata.