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One of the Toronto Hare Krishna Temple’s biggest festivals of the year, Gaura Purnima,  falls on Sunday, March 12, 2017.  Celebrations will start early in the morning and continue into the evening where expect a huge turnout of devotees! Gaura Purnima marks the divine appearance of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, who is non-different than Lord Krishna.  He appeared in Navadwipa (modern …

Sunday March 12, 2017 marks the appearance of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the inspiration behind the congregational chanting of the Holy Name of Krsna. Devotees will be having non-stop kirtan from 1:45pm to 5:45pm on that day at the Toronto Hare Krishna Temple. Join us for this ecstatic 4 hours of singing the mahamantra and dancing. Please bring along family and …

The Toronto Hare Krishna Temple is starting a new online cooking series called “Cooking for Krishna” wherein delectable dishes from famous Hare Krishna cookbooks will be lovingly prepared and shown in a step-by-step fashion.  This series is presented by one of our very nice devotees of our Toronto Hare Krishna community, Lyudmila Mataji.  We hope you enjoy!  Please leave your comments below!Cooking for …

The Toronto Hare Krishna Temple will be featuring an ongoing series on our website about how active members of our community became practitioners of the Hare Krishna faith.  Written by Krishna Rajesh, a young high school student in our community, this series will share devotees’ personal stories of how they became Hare Krishnas!  Please share your encouraging words and feedback with a …

Join us for five full days of fun-filled days of interactive spiritual learning; complete with daily themes, art and crafts, mantra meditation, yoga, music, fun cooking classes and much more – in a safe environment providing ample space and security. Sumptuous breakfast, lunch and snack prasadam will be provided.  The camp will run for five days Monday, March 13th to …

The Toronto Hare Krishna Temple will be celebrating Siva Ratri on Sunday, February 26, 2017. Siva Ratri literally translates as, “the night of Lord Siva”. Devotees of Lord Krishna view Lord Shiva as the greatest Vaishnava (devotee of Vishnu), based on Srimad-Bhagavatam, 12.13.16 says this (among other things) about Lord Shiva: vaishnavanam yatha shambhu, “Amongst all Vaishnavas, Lord Shiva is …

The Toronto Hare Krishna Temple is very pleased to announce that we will be starting a two-month Mridanga Course for beginners, but everybody across all age groups and levels are welcome for this course. The start date for the course and other particulars are mentioned below. This course will be taught by our resident devotee – Gopal Prabhu, a young, …

Earlier this year, our Toronto Sankirtan Team unveiled a beautifully-made video which highlighted some of the accomplishments during the year 2016.  This year promises to be filled with more sankirtan – sharing our spiritual knowledge and culture with everyone in Toronto!  Check out the inspiring video below!

We recently ran into a simple little video, made by a Vloggers “Ki & Kesh”.  They put together a nice little video about our temple on New Year’s Day. It offers a nice perspective on the grand celebrations that took place on that day.  Check out their video below.

We warmly invite you, your family and friends to the observance of the appearance anniversary of Lord Nityananda on the evening of Wednesday February 8, 2017. Nityananda Prabhu appeared as Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s principal associate for spreading the congregational chanting of the holy names of the Lord. He appeared in 1474 in the village of Ekachakra, now in West Bengal. He …