Srila Prabhupada and Jaladuta Sculpture Installed Outside ISKCON Boston.
On Sunday August 5th, the 52ndanniversary of ISKCON’s incorporation according to the Vaishnava calendar, around 200 devotees gathered outside the ISKCON Boston temple to install a historic sculpture of Srila Prabhupada.
The specially commissioned sculpture was created for ISKCON’s 50thanniversary celebrations in 2016. Designed by Russian devotee Madan Mohan Das and sculpted by Ukranian artist Volodymyr Zhuravel, the beautifully detailed bronze piece depicts Srila Prabhupada disembarking from the Jaladuta cargo ship at Boston’s Commonwealth Pier, where he arrived to bring Lord Chaitanya’s message to the Western World.
The sculpture was originally unveiled in two parts during a massive celebration at Kolkata’s Netaji Indoor Stadium in 2015, in honor of Srila Prabhupada departing Kolkata for the U.S. The first part of the sculpture, showing Prabhupada boarding the Jaladuta, has already been installed in Kolkata.
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