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Lalla Babu Temple
(Lala Babu ka Mandir)

The Deities in this temple are life-size Sri Sri Radha Krishna-chandra, along with Lalita Devi. This temple was built around 1810, by Sri Krishna Chandra Sinha at the cost of 25 lakhs (2.5 million) rupees. Lalla Babu is the nickname of Sri Krishna Candra. He was a wealthy landlord in Murshidabad, Bengal. Even though Lalla Babu was so rich, he gave up everything and collected alms house to house. Lalla Babu also arranged to have the ghatas around Radha Kunda constructed.

There is a story that Srila Prabhupada tells in Nectar of Devotion about Lalla Babu. “About two hundred years ago or less, one big landlord known as Lalla Babu, a Calcutta landholder, became a Vaishnava and lived in Vrindavana. He was also begging from door to door, even at the homes of his political enemies. Begging involves being ready to be insulted by persons to whose home one has to come. But one has to tolerate such insults for the sake of Krishna” One time he was in a lawsuit with a builder of another neighboring temple. After he won the case he later went to the house of this person to beg under the orders of his guru. Srila Prabhupada uses this story as an example of pridelessness.

The workmanship of this temple is excellent. It is in a large courtyard. It has a big flower garden and no outside flowers are used for worship of this Deity. This temple is built like the Jagannatha temple in Puri. Architecturally it is an interesting temple.

How To Get Here The Ranganath temple is right next to this temple, but you have to get on the road that goes to Brahma Kunda to get to it. From Brahma Kunda you follow the road around towards the Yamuna. This temple is about two minutes from Brahma Kunda. If you are coming south from Gopinath Bazaar, you make a left on the road just after Bilvamangala Thakur’s samadhi. This temple is then about a five-minute walk, down the road on the right. It is a large temple and is hard to miss.

Temple Timings Darshan is from 8 am to 12 noon and 4 to 8 pm.

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