Why you build a dome in front?
Bhagavati dasi : Vasudeva invited him that next time when you pass from Nadi to Hawaii, next year you come and stay in Fiji.
Vasudeva das: stay in Fiji. Prabhupada says, "I will write to you when I can come." So Prabhupada wrote a letter to me, "I am coming in 1975." He rang from Hawaii, "Have you got the land?" I said no. Then I decided that I've got land, so I'll donate this land to ISKCON, build a nice temple. We gave a contract for $330,000. I didn't have any idea of how to build a temple. When I sent the copy of a plan to Prabhupada in Mayapur, Prabhupada saw it, Prabhupada says, "Why you build a dome in front? The architect says front people can see from the road. No, dome should be where the Deities are." So we had to make so much alteration for that.
Bhagavati dasi: And he said the road should be concrete. For collection, Vasudeva used to go early in the morning, six o'clock, with a BTG in his hand and Prabhupada's photo there.
Vasudeva das: As soon as they see Prabhupada's photo, some will give thousand dollar, some five hundred dollar, some two thousand dollar. Within two months, I collected forty thousand dollars.
Bhagavati dasi: And then we got some loan from bank.
Vasudeva das: Bank, yes.
Reference: Following Srila Prabhupada-A Chronological Series by Bhagavati Dasi
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