A New Era Begins

Wednesdays are considered very auspicious beginnings for important undertakings. Today, Wednesday, July 22, 2015 seems like just another Wednesday, but for the devotees of Lord Krishna here in Northern New Jersey it is a day of monumental importance.

Several large vehicles and construction machines descended upon the parcel of land at 180 Troy Road to start the clearing of brush, dead trees and extra vegetation to prepare the grounds for the future home of the new Hare Krishna Temple - ISKCON of Parsippany.

The weather was perfect and Mother Earth seemed joyous. She is, after all, considered the consort of Lord Vishnu and nothing is more pleasing to her than to see her land being used in His direct glorification. The workers moved deftly and within just a few hours managed to clear a good portion of the 3.2 acre wooded parcel.

This project is certainly an ambitious one. A multi-million dollar budget can be daunting, but the devotees of the Lord have kept faith that, as promised in the Gita, Sri Krishna will carry what is lacking. Finally more than six years after having acquired the land, tangible work has started on the project and has already begun to remove doubts from the minds of the reality of this project. It is indeed happening–right before our eyes.

By the generous contributions of our congregational devotees we have raised nearly 1.5 million dollars in pledges over just a few weeks and the momentum continues to grow daily as the fortunate people of New Jersey see the vision unfolding before them.

If you are in the area, please go and visit the site at the corner of Troy and Baldwin Roads in Parsippany, New Jersey.

Also visit our current temple at 100 Jacksonville Road, Towaco, New Jersey.  Open daily and especially for our weekly Free Sunday Love Feast at 5:30pm every Sunday.

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Activity Begins At Site

Things are starting to “get real”, as they say. On a bright day last week, members of a surveying crew descended upon 170 Troy Road in Parsippany, the site of the future home of Their Lordships Sri Sri Gaura Nitai. They have started the preliminary work of surveying the grounds for the first phase of the grand project of the new ISKCON of Parsippany Temple.

Although it was relatively quite at the site while the surveyors worked, this day marks the culmination of many years of hard work on the part of the devotees who have struggled to raise funds, design the plans, and apply for zoning permissions. Like the legendary ksatriya Arjuna, the devotees have had the Supreme Lord on their side and by the mercy of Srila Prabhupada and Sri Sri Gaura Nitai we received the permission to build this new temple in November 2013. It was not easy, but it was a sweet victory.

There is still a long road ahead and there will be struggles, without a doubt, but things are moving along.

Please join us in this monumental initiative to build this temple. It is YOUR temple where all members of your family can reap the immense spiritual benefits of service to the Supreme Lord.

Gaura Nitai Visit New Property

On Sunday June 7th 2015 our presiding deities of Sri Sri Gaura Nitai made their first pilgrimage to our new temple property in Parsippany, New Jersey. Sri Sri Gaura Nitai were given the opportunity to properly survey and bless the land, and afterwards HH Bhakti Rasamrita Swami spoke some words of encouragement as we launch this endeavor to build Sri Sri Gaura Nitai a grand new home. 

$1.2m Pledged in One Evening

HG Radha Jivan Prabhu scheduled a return trip to New Jersey on Friday June 12, 2015, making a special excursion to our humble temple while he was visiting New York with the TOVP team for the grand Ratha Yatra celebrations. As he had promised before, he was able to assist us in collecting $1.2 million in pledges over the next 5 years from some of the local devotees who were able to attend the presentation that evening. This evening alone has singlehandedly shifted the momentum of our project and we are now in the stages of planning a grand groundbreaking celebration this fall to be followed by construction.

Lord Nityananda Visits New Property

This past April Lord Nityananda’s paduka and Lord Nrsimhadev’s Sitari from Sri Mayapur Dham visited our ISKCON center in Towaco New Jersey while on tour to create awareness of Srila Prabhupada’s TOVP project. We were fortunate to have their association for almost a week preceding the presentation they were to make a visit to our new temple project in nearby Parsippany NJ. Lord Nityananda toured the entire property and gave his mercy to our community. That evening the TOVP team was able to raise $350,000 in pledges for the project in Sridham Mayapur to assist making Lord Nityananda’s vision a reality in the near future. HG Radha Jivan Prabhu told us that if the TOVP was able to raise 350K, for our project we will be able to receive far more, and he personally pledged to assist us in doing this.