360 view - Lila Sthali

360° view of rooms where Srila Prabhupada had stayed.

Scottish Church College

This colllege is the second oldest in North Calcutta, and through the years it has produced a long line of illustrious personalities, the foremost and topmost among them being A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada studied Sanskrit and English in his first year and then Sanskrit and philosophy in his second year in college. Once he also did a play on Chaitanya Mahaprabhu with his classmates.

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Scottish Church College

This colllege is the second oldest in North Calcutta, and through the years it has produced a long line of illustrious personalities, the foremost and topmost among them being A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada studied Sanskrit and English in his first year and then Sanskrit and philosophy in his second year in college. Once he also did a play on Chaitanya Mahaprabhu with his classmates.

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Mutty Lal Seal's Free School Srila Prabhupada's classroom

This is the classroom of Prabhupada in Mutty Lall Seal School. Classes were disciplined and formal. Each long bench held four boys, who shared a common desk, with four inkwells.

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Mutty Lal Seal's Free School

Mutty Lall was a boy's school established in 1842 by a wealthy suvarna-vanik vaishnava (devotee of Krishna). In 1904, when Prabhupada was eight years old, he entered the nearby Mutty Lall Seal School, on the corner of Harrison and Central Roads.

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Mutty Lal Seal's Free School

In 1904, when Prabhupada was eight years old, he entered the nearby Mutty Lall Seal Free School, on the corner of Harrison and Central Roads.

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Govinda Bhawan, Srila Prabhupada's house

In my childhood, Radha-Govindaji were the source of my enjoyment. I asked my father to give me Radha-Govinda deities and he gave me and I worshiped. And I also asked him to give me ratha, and the ratha was going from my home by the side of Syamasundara.'s house. Our house was later termed to be Govinda Bhawan

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Radha Govinda Temple

The most munificient deities of Sri Sri Radha Govinda dev jiu, in a 200-years-old temple in Calcutta's Burrabazar, have been served and maintained by the Mulliks since their installation in January 1822. Srila Prabhupada organised the first Rath-Yatra festival from this temple at the age of four.

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Radha Govinda Temple courtyard

Walking through the narrow enterance on the busy Mahatma Gandhi Road, one is transported back in time as it opens onto a sprawling courtyard, with a stone statue of Garuda perched on a four-foot column. The temple's architecture is typical of the times in which it was built, complete with a nat mandir (a pavillion), and a seprate alter space The pavillion has a stone roof with stout pilliars 15ft high.

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Kidderpore Dock

From here, Prabhupada boarded the M.V. Jaladuta on one of history's most important spiritual voyage to the West, in the summer of 1965. The port is still in operation. It is a Government of India-owned property, maintained and administerd by a Government-instuted Trustee Board-Kolkata Port Trust.

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Victoria Memorial

Whenever Srila Prabhupada was in Kolkata, he would usually take his morning walk over there. A number of morning walk conversations have been recorded in Victoria Memorial Grounds. While envisioning the Mayapur ToVP Chandrodaya Mandir, Srila Prabhupada referred time and again to the elegance, magnificence and imposing stature of this structure.

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