Hare Krishna Golden Temple

Hare Krishna Golden Temple (Telugu: హరే కృష్ణ గోల్డెన్ టెంపుల్) is located at Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, India. It is the first Golden Temple to be constructed in Telangana. It was inaugurated in 2018 by Vice President of India Sri Venkaiah Naidu.[1][2]

Hare Krishna Golden Temple
Religion
AffiliationHinduism
DistrictHyderabad
DeitySri Sri Radha Govinda, Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy
FestivalsJanamashtami
Location
LocationBanjara Hills
StateTelangana
CountryIndia
Geographic coordinatesGoogle. "Hare Krishna Golden Temple" (Map). Google Maps. Google.
Architecture
TypeHindu temple architecture
Completed2018
Website
www.hkmhyderabad.org

Hare Krishna Hill

Hare Krishna Hill is the hillock on which this temple is situated. HKM Hyderabad is a charitable society with the objective of propagating Krishna consciousness all over the world.

Temple at night

Features of the temple

About 700 years ago the Lord manifested himself as Swayambhu Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy at Road No. 12 Banjara Hills. Along with Lord Swayambhu Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy, Lord Shiva also self manifested himself as Swayambhu Sri Panchajanyeshwara Swamy at the same place. The Hare Krishna Golden Temple is the 1st Golden Temple in Telangana and this transcendental temple of the Lord has a 50 foot Golden Dhwaja Stambh, 4600 square foo Maha Mandapam and five golden stairs Rajagopuram.[3] The uniqueness of Lord's manifestation at this place is that the Lord and his eternal consort Sri Lakshmi Devi are in a self-manifest standing posture where Lord Narasimhadev appears in a blissful divine state and Mother Lakshmi Devi is mercifully showing her Abhaya Hastha and blessing all the devotees. The Temple has Harinam Japa Mantapa located right after the Dhvaja Stambha. It provides a unique way to remember and glorify Lord Krishna by chanting His holy names while proceeding for His darshan. Visitors to the temple can choose to either go through the Harinam Mantapa or directly proceed for darshan of Lord Shri Lakshmi Narasimha. The Japa Mantapa has 108 steps and on every step the devotees stand and chant the Hare Krishna maha-mantra. There is a rare Saligrama (Shaligrama or Salagrama) shila kept in the Garbhalayam of the presiding deity Swayambhu Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy. This Saligrama Shila was found in Gandaki River (Near Muktinath Temple, Nepal) and miraculously arrived at this Kshetram by the inconceivable potency of the Lord.

Shrines (altars)

Hare Krishna Golden Temple has two shrines:

  1. One is Swayambhu Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy
  2. Second is of Sri Sri Radha-Govinda

Darshan Timings

The temple is open at 4.30 am. The day begins with a Grand Aarti ceremony called mangala-arati followed by worship of Tulasi Devi, Sri Narasimha Arati. During every arati session the devotees sing and dance to the rhythm of Hare Krishna (mantra).

Hare Krishna Golden Temple timings:

Morning

  1. Mangal Aarti - 04.30 AM
  2. Darshan Aarti - 07.30 AM
  3. Pallaki & Guru Puja- 07.35 - 08.20 AM
  4. Srimad Bhagavata Purana Class- 08.30 AM
  5. Darshan Close- 12.15 PM

Evening

  1. First Darshan- 04.30 PM
  2. Tulasi Aarti - 06.45 PM
  3. Sandhya Aarti - 07.00 PM
  4. Shayan Aarti - 08.00 PM
  5. Darshan Closes- 08.25 PM

Weekends

  1. Afternoon closing time- 12.00 PM on weekdays and 12.30 PM on weekends
  2. Evening closing time- 08.45 PM[4]

Festivals

HKM Golden temple celebrates festivals that are related to avatars of Lord Vishnu or with Vedic culture. Main festivals that are celebrated within the temple are:

Social services

Hare Krishna Golden Temple also known as HKM Hyderabad provides free food to those in need through various food distribution programmes such as Akshaya Patra, the world's largest NGO-run mid-day meal programme serves Over 1.8 Million meals to school children every day.[5][6][7] and other programmes including Bhojanamrita[8][9][10] Saddimoota[11] and Annapoorana schemes.[12][13] The visitors to the temple are provided free lunch from 12.30 PM through Nitya Annadana Seva .

  • Shrine for Srila Prabhupad
  • Altar of Sri Sri Radha Govinda with their associates
  • Sri Sri Radha Govinda
  • Sri Nitai Gauranga
  • Rare kind of Saligrama
  • Sri Lakshmi Narasimma Swamy altar
  • Altar of sri Garuda dev
  • Japa Anjaneya Swamy
  • Japa Mandapam

References
  1. "HKM Hyderabad inauguration". Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  2. "first Golden temple of telagana". Retrieved 22 April 2018.
  3. HKM Temple Hyderabad website, Temple Information
  4. "darshan timings". Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  5. "Akshaya patra joins with Infosys to set up kitchen in khandi". Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  6. "Biggest khandi kitchen". The Hindu. 28 March 2018. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  7. "mahabub nagar akshaya patra kitchen". The Hindu. 23 July 2019. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
  8. "MEIL Bhojanamrita". Retrieved 7 May 2012.
  9. "HKM Bhojanamrita". Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  10. "HKM charitable foundation Bhojanamrita". Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  11. "Telangana Annaporna schems". Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  12. "Biggest Bhojanamrita kitchen". Retrieved 2 March 2014.
  13. "Annaporna counters in Hyderabad". Retrieved 5 December 2019.


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