50th Anniversary
The Golden Anniversary: Sri Sri Radha-Londonisvara, the Lords of London Monday 2nd December The finale of the Golden Anniversary Week! Celebrated on Odana Sashti, as per the Gaudiya Vaishnava calendar, on this day 50 years ago Srila Prabhupada installed Their Most Beautiful Lordships Sri Sri RadhaLondonisvara. Their Lordships wore three beautiful new outfits on this 50th Anniversary day. The Mangal arati darshan saw Their Lordships wearing a new night outfit offered the night before. This was followed by a royal day outfit. Two new backdrops – a London backdrop behind Sri Sri Radha-Londonisvara and a London Rathayatra backdrop behind Lord Jagannatha, Lord Baladeva and Subhadra Devi – handpainted by an artist in Budapest, mesmerised devotees across the world. The altar was also a beautifully decorated “extension” of the scene in the backdrops with flower beds, fountains, pillars, street lights and trees decorated with flower arrangements. In the evening, a glorious Pushpa Abhishek of Their Lordships and an offering of a new night outfit during Shayan arati was a beautiful sight for the eyes.
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