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Jagannath Guest House
Super-budget rooms a short walk from the ISKCON temple
West Bengal · East India
Mayapur
👥 7,000+ residents
107m Vedic Planetarium
107m Vedic PlanetariumA Bengali village of seven thousand that takes in a million pilgrims a year: the birthplace of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and the world headquarters of ISKCON. Days run on temple time (morning aarti, prasadam halls, a ferry across the Ganga to Nabadwip) under the rising dome of the Vedic Planetarium.
Stays
Where to stay in Mayapur
3 hand-picked stays from budget to luxury, the author's picks first.
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SoultoSoul Guesthouse & Yoga Retreat
Designer 7-room boutique homestay run by a hospitable local host
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Hotel Sonar Bangla Mayapur
Mayapur's most resort-like property, with pool and modern rooms
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Highlights
ISKCON MayapurThe world headquarters
Radharani TempleA sanctuary of divine love
Temple of the Vedic PlanetariumThe world's largest Vaishnava temple
NabadwipNine islands of spirituality
YogapithaSri Chaitanya's birthplace
Ganga TempleOn the banks of the sacred river
Shri Shri Jagannath Baldev Subhadra Temple
Srila Prabhupada Pushpa Samadhi Mandir
What to see 22
ISKCON MayapurThe world headquartersDetails →
Radharani TempleA sanctuary of divine loveDetails →
Temple of the Vedic PlanetariumThe world's largest Vaishnava templeDetails →
NabadwipNine islands of spiritualityDetails →
Mayapur GoshalaThe quietest hour in Mayapur: four hundred protected cows, a bullock cart and fresh gheeDetails →
Krishnanagar RajbariThe court that bankrolled Nadia's arts, faded now but still keeping its 300-year-old Durga pujaDetails →
Ballal DhipiA thousand-year-old brick complex ten minutes off the Mayapur road, and almost nobody climbs itDetails →
Shree Chaitanya Gaudiya MathAnother lineageDetails →
YogapithaSri Chaitanya's birthplace
Ganga TempleOn the banks of the sacred river
Shri Shri Jagannath Baldev Subhadra Temple
Srila Prabhupada Pushpa Samadhi Mandir
Srivas Angan TempleThe courtyard of Srivasa Thakura
Svananda Sukhada KunjaBhaktivinoda Thakura's bhajan kutir: the verandah where he first described Mayapur, furnished as he left it and nearly empty
Hulor Ghat and the Nabadwip FerryA few rupees and fifteen minutes, and the whole river life of Mayapur goes past you
Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math (Jal Mandir)A temple in a pond
Dhameswar Mahaprabhu MandirThe neem-wood Mahaprabhu his own wife tended for eighty years, the oldest living image of him
Sri Narasimha Mandir, NrsimhapalliThe dham's oldest legend, in a village temple most pilgrims never reach
Chand Kazi's SamadhiA Muslim judge's tomb kept as a Vaishnava shrine, under a champaka five centuries old
Bethuadahari Wildlife SanctuaryThe one proper forest walk within reach of Mayapur, thick with spotted deer and birdsong
Chupi Char, PurbasthaliWinter dawns on a silent oxbow lake, a hundred bird species and hardly another visitor
Ghurni Clay Doll Quarter, KrishnanagarBengal's most lifelike folk sculpture, bought from the hands that shaped it
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