1st Sankirttan, Turkey: 20 July 2003

All glories to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga

First Sankirttan in Turkey
from the
Sri Govinda Math Yoga Centre, Ankara

And Sripad Akinchan Maharaj's write-up of this day 20 July 2003

Happy faces of Turkish devotees participating in the first nagar-sankirttan of our Mission in Ankara.

Left to right: Sripad Paramahamsa Maharaj, Prabhu Ramaray and Sripad Akinchan Maharaj head the chanting precession.

Curious onlookers watch the devotees chant in the shade of a restaurant awning—and hear the auspicious sound vibration.

"The effect of this congregational chanting of the Lord's Holy Names on the spectators is electrifying: men, women, and children converge on us from all sides. Some stare; some gape; some take photographs; others film the novel spectacle."

— Read Sripad Akinchan Maharaj's write-up of this day and of other recent days of the current tour.

Earlier pictures of arrival in Turkey

Current world tour news at: What's New?

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