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RAJAPUR JAGANNATH TEMPLE:

Location: Beside Mayapur, Nadia,W.B,India

Lord Jagannath with his two siblings called Balarama and Subhadra stay here from a long years ago but their temple was build up by ISKCON and ISKCON worship the idols since 1979.

History: About 500 years ago at the age of Lord Chaitanya, one old bramhin,named Jagadish Ganguly he is devotee of Lord Jagannath. Every year he is used to go to Puri for visiting Lord Jagannath but in that year he was unable to go because he lost his vision. Then he thought that "I should sacrifice my life by committing suicide on the Ganga river". But at the night when he fall in asleep Lord Jagannath was appear and he promised that next-day on Ganga river he would definitely come in a form of a wood and taking that and build idols by carpenter. Next-day the bramhin went to Ganga and collect the wood and he request a carpenter who had suffering from illness,at first he refused but finally he made the idols. Fortunately he came round from illness and the bramhin named Jagadish Ganguly was regain his vision. Then he established the idol and he worshipped the idol in his death.

After many years the idols were get buried down the ground. In 1960-1970(approximately), one bramhin was lived at Rajapur, he had seven daughters no sons and he was the devotee of Kali. One day the youngest daughter name Gauri went near the buried place and she heard a murmuring sound that someone wants food water etc. She was afraid of it and she run away to her father and told him all. Then her father went there and digging the soil and found Lord Jagannath. The name of the bramhin was Fatik Chatterjee. Few years later he got the old age and he hand over the idols to ISKCON MAYAPUR.

Form then the regular worshipping was started till now. And the bhoga offering is similar to Puri temple.

Festivals: festivals are mainly celebrated such that Ratha Yatra, Snan Yatra, Sandal Yatra, Shiva Ratri etc.Jagannath temple of Rajapur