Ganesh Festival in London
At the end of 19th century, Lokmanya Tilak, one of the great leaders of
India's freedom movement from Maharashtra started Community Ganesh
Festival to bring about awareness and educate people about the freedom
movement in Mumbai and Pune. Since then Ganesh Festival is being
celebrated on a large scale all over Maharashtra over a period of eleven
days for over 100 years. The people from Maharashtra living in the capital, have continued that tradition and celebrate the festival every year at
the Maharashtra Mandal London, Maharashtra Bhavan, 306 Dollis Hill Lane
NW2 6HH.
For more details:
Tel : 020 8450 5009
E-mail: mmlondonuk@hotmail.com
Web :
www.mmlondon.co.uk/ganeshotsav02.html
50th year of Shree Ganesh Festival : Shree Sai-Baba Centre
The Golden Jubilee Year (Festival Started By Late Ajibai Banarse)
SHRI SAI-BABA CENTRE- LONDON
25 HOOP LANE LONDON NW11 8JN
Tel : 020-8458-3813
Contact: Mr Aatmaram Jirapure
In 1965, Aajibai completed her dream project - a Sai temple at her
residence. It was the first Hindu temple in Europe. From the Indian cricket
team and Indian High Commissioners in London to the Archbishop of
Canterbury, people of eminence visited her house . Indira Gandhi praised her
as a 'self-made woman'. Vijayalaxmi Pandit, Yashwantrao Chavan, famous
litterateur Pu La Deshpande and Acharya Atre, the Shankaracharyas of
different pithas, Swami Chinmayanand, Swami Prabhupad, Hridaynath
Mangeshkar, Bhimsen Joshi, - the list of her admirers and visitors was
endless. Fame and fortune only brought out the philanthropist in Aajibai.
She had a huge well dug in her native Choundi, which had been
parched by drought, and also built a Saibaba temple there.
