Holy Places and Objects
Udbodhan shrine, Baghbazar, Kolkata. Holy Mother lived in this shrine room on the first floor and entered Mahasamadhi on 20th July, 1920.
Early picture of Holy Mother's Rock, Bangalore, 1911. Sri Sarada Devi had meditated on this rock under the tree during her visit in March 1911.
Holy Mother's rock, now a shrine, Bangalore.
Old view of Baranagar Math, where Swami Vivekananda and a few other disciples of Sri Ramakrishna started their spiritual journey that culminated in the monastic order later located at Belur Math.
Belur Math, 1937
Belur Math in 1949
Belur Math in 1940s from the west side.
Old Belur Math from the temple.
Belur Math in 1949
Belur Math bathing ghat, 1937.
Belur Math compound from Ramakrishna's temple.
Belur Math courtyard with the mango tree, 1937.
Belur Math dining room and hall
Belur Math from the Ganges.
Belur Math from the Ganges
Old view of Belur Math from the Ganges.
Early picture of old shrine, Belur Math.
Renovated old shrine room at Belur Math
Dedication day of Ramakrishna Temple, Belur Math by Vijnanananda
Belur Math with Ganges, 1937
Holy Mother's shrine at Belur Math.
Holy Mother's temple, Belur Math, 1937.
Holy Mother's temple, Belur Math, 1949.
Holy Mother's temple from the roof of old Mission Office, Belur Math
Leggett house, Belur Math
Holy Mother carried RK's picture in this tin Box, now in Ramakrishna Museum, Belur Math
Ramakrishna's statue in Belur Math.
Ramakrishna's bed in Belur Math.
Ramakrishna's original picture on a chair in Belur Math.
Ramakrishna's porcelain photo at Belur Math, 2014.
Ramakrishna's shoes, Belur Math
Sri Ramakrishna's slippers, Belur Math
Ramakrishna's spice bag, next to his bed in Belur Math.
Inner shrine of Sri Ramakrishna at the Main Temple in Belur Math.
Swami Bramhmananda Shrine in Belur Math
Swami Vivekananda Temple, Belur Math
Swamiji's (Vivekananda's) wooden sandals, Belur Math
Swamiji's shoes at Belur Math.
Swami Vivekananda Shrine Image, Belur Math
Swamiji's room at Belur Math at right side upstairs, 1949.
Early picture of Swami Vivekananda's room, Belur Math.
Swamiji's room (outside).
Swamiji's tanpura and mridanga (drum), Belur Math
Om Shrine Image at upper floor of Swami Vivekananda's Temple
Balaram Bose's house in North Calcutta. Sri Ramakrishna regularly met with his devotees in the long drawing room (first floor with verandah).
Inner shrine of Balaram Bose's house in North Calcutta.
Early picture of Nivedita school, Bose Para Lane,Calcutta. It was inaugurated by Holy Mother.
Rani Rasmani's house at Jaan Bazaar, Kolkata. Ramakrishna visited this house.
Art Institute of Chicago, where Swamiji addressed the Parliament of Religions.
Cossipore Garden House, 2014
Cossipore cremation ground where Ramakrishna was cremated.
The Cossipore garden house as it used to be before it was rebuilt. Ramakrishna lived here for eight months.
Cossipore garden house with Mango Tree, where Ramakrishna became Kalpataru.
Sri Ramakrishna's room in Cossipore Garden House
Holy Mother's shrine at Cossipore.
Early picture of Dakshineshwar Kali Temple.
Inner shrine of main Kali Temple, Dakshineshwar
Krishna's broken image in Radha Kanta Temple, Dakshineshwar.
Old view of Sri Ramakrishna's room in Dakshineshwar
Early picture of Dakshineshwar Kali Temple with twelve Shiva temples (West View).
The deity Ramlala, Sri Ramakrishna played with him and bathed him in the Ganges, leading from the Chandni Ghat steps, Dakshineshwar.
Old view of Dakshineswar Temple
Panchamundi at Beltala, Dakshineswar.
Old view of Chandni Ghat in front of the temple courtyard, Dakshineshwar
Closeup of deity feet in inner shrine of Radha Kanta Temple, Dakshineswar.
Holy Mother's water pitcher at the entrance of staircase in Nahabat, Dakshineswar.
Old view of the garden house of Jadu Mallick
Painting of Mother Mary, infant Jesus in the parlour of Jadu Mallick's house
Early picture of Kuthi, where RK lived for 16 years, Dakshineshwar
Old view of Nahabat.
Old view of Nahabat and Sri Ramakrishna's room, Dakshineswar
Holy Mother's statue at Nahabat, Dakshineswar.
Holy Mother's kitchen under the stairs at Nahabat, Dakshineswar.
Old Panchavati at Dakshineswar
Sri Ramakrishna's handwriting
North Veranda of Ramakrishna's room from where he would see off the devotees, Dakshineshwar
Sri Ramakrishna's signature
Sadhan Kutir at Dakshineswar
Sadhan Kutir at Dakshineswar
Baidyanath Temple, Deoghar, Ramakrishna and Holy Mother visited this holy place.
Vishnu Temple at Gaya, where Khudiram had a vision of Vishnu before Ramakrishna's birth.
Inner shrine Lord Vishnu's footprint at Vishnupadh Temple, Gaya.
Jackfruit tree where Holy Mother would rest on her way to Calcutta.
Holy Mother's jewellery
Holy Mother's trunk box at Udbodhan Mother's house Mayer Bari.
Wooden seat used by Hoy Mother during the ceremonial Shodasi Puja
Jayrambati Temple from Punyapukur, 1949
Amodar river in 1977, Jayrambati.
Amodar river, Jayrambati. Holy Mother during her childhood days would often come to the Amodar river for a bath and regarded it like the holy Ganges.
'Barujjey Pukur' (Banerji's tank)
Holy Mother travelled by bullock cart from Jayrambati to Vishnupur.
Holy Mother's statue in the temple, Jayrambati.
Holy Mother's temple, Jayrambati.
Holy Mother's temple (back view), Jayrambati.
Holy Mother's temple, Jayrambati in 1923.
Inner shrine of Holy Mother's temple, Jayrambati.
Old front view of Holy Mother's cottage (Puratan Bari) , Jayrambati
Holy Mother's new house (Nutan Bari), Jayrambati. Swami Saradananda built this house to accomodate the increasing number of devotees. Holy Mother used to initiate her devotees here.
Early picture of Holy Mother's old cottage (Puratan Bari), Jayrambati.
Holy Mother's old house (Puratan Bari), Jayrambati, where she lived for the majority of her life.
Holy Mother's temple, Jayrambati in 1923
Panaromic view of old Jayrambati
Simhavahini Temple at Jayrambati
Inner shrine of Simhavahini Temple at Jayrambati.
Old view of Gopal-ma's house, Kamarhati, 1970. Gopal-ma saw Gopala here and Ramakrishna visited this room.
Haldarpukur - the tank where Ramakrishna bathed and played as a child.
Haldarpukur - the water tank, Kamarpukur , where Ramakrishna bathed and played as a child. Even his father Khudiram, and later the Holy Mother bathed in it.
Primary School of the Lahas, Kamarpukur. Here young Sri Ramakrishna learnt his Bengali alphabet.
Shiv Temple of Sitanath Pyne at Kamarpukur
Temple of Sri Ramakrishna , Kamarpukur
Temple of Sri Ramakrishna built at the exact place where He was born, Kamarpukur.
Sri Ramakrishna Temple Shrine, Kamarpukur
Sri Ramakrishna's hut - South facing, Kamarpukur
Ramakrishna's Family Deities -- Shitala, Raghuvir, Rameswar -- Kamarpukur, 1949
Ancestral home of Ramakrishna, Kamarpukur
Yogi Shiva Temple (old) , Kamarpukur. Sri Ramakrishna's mother had an experience of a divine light entering her here and later found out that she had conceived.
Yogi Shiva Temple Shrine (old) , Kamarpukur
Mango orchard of Manik Chandra Bandyopadhyaya, Kamarpukur.
Raghuvir's shrine and Sri Ramakrishna's cottage, Kamarpukur.
Ancestral home of Sri Ramakrishna and Yogi Shiva temple, Kamarpukur.
Husking shade, the birth spot of Sri Ramakrishna, Kamarpukur
Swami Saradananda at Koalpara Ashrama
Ramakrishna Yogashrama at Koalpara
Early picture of Jagadamba Ashrama at Kolapara.
Early picture of Jagadamba Ashrama, Koalpara.
Old view of Jagadamba Ashrama at Koalpara.
Jagadamba Ashrama at Holy Mother's veranda
Old view of Jagadamba ashrama at Koalpara, later Holy Mother stayed several days with Radhu here
Sri Ramakrishna's slippers, M.'s house
Fireplace at Advaita Ashrama, Mayavati, where Vivekananda slept during his visit in 1901.
An early picture of Advaita Ashrama, Mayavati, Himalayas.
View of Nilambar Babu's House at the bank of Ganges.Its located behind the guest house of Belur Math on the way to the ghat. This place was used as Ramakrishna's monastery in the early days, now called as "Old Math"
Inner shrine at Panihati, Mani Sen's house.
Vaishnava festival ground at Panihati. Ramakrishna attended this festival many times.
View of Ramakrishna's room and Kali Temple from the Nahabat
Old view of the Shyampukur house in Calcutta
Old view of the Shrine room at Shyampukur house in Calcutta
Holy Mother's shrine at the terrace of Shyampukur house in Calcutta.
Bel tree, Sihar where Shyamsundari Devi (Holy Mother's mother) heard the sound marking the advent of Holy Mother. The tree is adjacent to a pond known as Ellapukur.
Old view of Sri Ramakrishna's nephew - Hridayram Mukhopadhyaya's house, Sihar
Kali temple at Telo-Bhelo, a place notoriously known for the brigands during early times, between Arambagh and Tarakeswar.
Inner shrine of Kali Temple at Telo-Bhelo.
Vivekananda Rock at Thousand Island Park. Under this Oak Tree Swamiji had nirvikalpa samadhi.
Vivekananda Cottage, Thousand Island Park, New York
View of Varanasi from the Ganges
Vireswar Shiva Shrine at the roof top where SV was born, SV ancestral home
Vishnupur Railway Station
Shrine image in chamber roof top where Swami Vivekananda was born.
Vivekananda Rock Memorial, Kanyakumari
Radha with her companions Lalita and Vishakha at Nidhuvan in Vrindaban
Banke Bihari Temple, Vrindavan.
Old view of Nidhivan in Vrindavan. Ramakrishna visited here.