Prabhupada Sankirtana Society Festival at Tompkins Square Park

On June 19 Kapindra Swami’s Prabhupada Sankirtana Society held their annual Prabhupada Festival in Tompkins Square Park. This years festival was a grand success with over a thousand plates of prasadam and hundreds of books distributed. Everything was accompanied by the constant chanting of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra. One old resident of the Lower East Side came up to me and said he hadn’t heard chanting like this since Prabhupada was   ...Read More

City of New York To Honour Srila Prabhupada

34 years ago the worldwide Hare Krishna movement was inaugurated by Srila Prabhupada under a certain tree in Tompkins Square Park, New York City. There he led a public Kirtan that was to engulf the neighbourhood at the time, and then grow into a movement that was to make ‘Hare Krishna’ a household word.   ...Read More