Hare Krishna Dallas

In 1970 The first group of devotees came to Dallas, Texas and established a preaching center at 5108 Mission Street. In 1971 spring, the devotees moved the center to a more fashionable district of Dallas The Turtle Creek, and rented there for few months in a small building. In the while,the devotees had been looking for property to buy.In 1971 finally they bought a former church property at the corner of Gurley Avenue and Graham Street namely the Mount Auburn Church in a residential section of East Dallas.With the idea of starting a gurukula The purchase of this property was done .. And so, from the approval of Srila Prabhupada,the ISKCON Governing Body Commission at that time bought the former church property for ISKCO

The Deities Sri Sri Radha-Kalachandaji were officially installed in the newly purchased Dallas Temple by Srila Prabhupada himself in 1972.To Dallas two weeks before the actual installationSrila Prabhupada came, showing the devotees how to do everything properly.500 years old The oldest Deity form of Krishna is The Deity of Sri Sri Radha Kalachandji found outside of India.

From 1979-1981 The Renovation of the temple was taken place.Soon afterwards The restaurant was built.In 1977 After Srila Prabhupada left the world to The Heaven,The devotee members of the famous Radha-Damodara Sankirtana Party in large number came to in Houston and Dallas.More than 15,000 followers today stay at Worth area,Dallas-Ft.In the immediate neighborhood there are presently 25 temple-owned homes which became models of community redevelopment.Education from elementary through junior high levels is provided from The Gurukula,and in the city`s best restaurants Kalachandji`s restaurant is also ranked in them.The Dallas Hare Krishna temple, By the grace of Srila Prabhupada and Sri Sri Radha Kalachandji,High standards of preaching and worship is established by the devotees,exactly demonstration given in thier Sunday enthusiastic Feast program.