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Established | 1931 |
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Founder | Shri. Nepaleshwar Banerjee |
Purpose | Religious |
Headquarters | Kanpur |
Location |
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Coordinates | 26°28′08″N 80°19′07″E / 26.468756°N 80.318632°E |
Official language | Hindi |
Seceratory | Swami Atmashraddhananda |
Website | rkmkanpur.org |
Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama is the Kanpur branch of the Ramakrishna Mission. The Ashram runs a charitable hospital, a senior secondary boys' high school and a library beside other charitable works.
The founder of Kanpur, "Ramakrishna Seva Sadan" (now known as Ram Krishna mission Ashram) was Nepal Maharaj, known as Nepalda alias "Master Moshai". His family name was Shri. Nepaleshwar Banerjee. He settled in Kanpur along with his two younger brothers, Gangadhar Banerjee, an architect and civil engineer, known as Gangada, and the youngest brother, Shri Khagendra Nath Banerjee, a technocrat, known as Khagen Babu, at a stone throw distance to the R.K. Mission ashram at R.K. Nagar Kanpur. Gangadhar Babu constructed their residential house at 110/204, G.T. Road, R.K. Nagar.
Nepal Maharaja was the founder of Kanpur Ram Krishna Seva Sadan, and founding Secretary of the Kanpur Ram Krishna mission.
The Ashram at Kanpur started at Raja Manzil, Birana Road, in the 1920s. The Ashram was called ‘Ramakrishna Seva Sadan’, and Srimat Swami Vijnanananda, a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, first visited this group. Ramakrishna Seva Sadan was moved to a new address at Aga Kothi, Ram Narayan Bazar, and was affiliated with the Headquarters at Belur Math in 1931. The Ashrama was now officially ‘Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama’. [1]
The Ashrama was transferred to a new place in Raja Manjil, Ram Narayan Bazar. In 1931, it became affiliated with Belur Math. Due to financial constraints, the Ashrama was shifted first to Anwarganj and then to the present site on 13 August 1937 in Gumti No. 5, on a land measuring 1.5 acres, donated by the Kanpur Improvement Trust. The locality in which Ashrama is situated was later named ‘Ramakrishna Nagar’. [1]