ISKCON Kopargaon is a Hare Krishna temple, community, and ashram dedicated to the practice of bhakti-yoga or loving service to Krishna, the Supreme Person (God). We are a branch of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), a worldwide spiritual movement founded by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, in New York City in 1966.
Kopargaon is placed on the bank of “Godavari” in the belt of “Dand Karanya” forest which is mentioned in the Ramayan, where Lord Ram stayed and killed so many asuras. This place is the hub of so many sages’ hermitages. Very well-known Daitya (Demons) Guru “Shukracharya”, has performed “Sanjivani Vidya” in Kopargaon. Also, the Shringi Rushi, who made rainfall happened in the kingdom of King Romapada, relative to King Dasarath during Tretayuga, just by putting his foot. One of the very famous sage from the time of Satayuga, Agastya Muni, who swallowed the whole ocean in a sip, had his hermitage nearby Kopargaon.
This auspicious place which is made potent and purified by so many sages, also the Dakshina Ganga (Ganges of South) river “Godavari” makes this place more spiritually potent. We are trying to build up a Krishna Conscious community, in such a city.