21/06/2024
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We invite all devotees and well-wishers to generously support our construction project to fulfil Srila Prabhupada’s desire for a temple in Bangkok, Thailand, with cooperation from the Indian community in Thailand.
As such we have registered Sri Sri Radhe Siam Foundation as affiliate of ISKCON in Thailand, and we are member of the ISKCON Thailand National Council (ITNC) wherein the are multiple centres in Thailand, but as yet no purpose-designed temple.
Here, please find our project outline and details how you may support this grand project.
We have secured the site in 62/1 Sukhumvit with down payment of 5,000,000 Baht. The total price is 50,000,000 Baht, and then we will begin the construction of magnificent Hawah Mahal Style Guest House, Vedic Centre, Vedic school and magnificent Vrindavan-Style temple within.
Please generously support this project over the expected time frame of around 5 years.
Here, please find Srila Prabhupada talking about the opportunity to establish preaching in Thailand in 1976. He was first expected to visit Thailand in 1974, but unfortunately had to cancel due to pressing issues in Mumbai. At that time he wrote a letter to the People of Bangkok introducing the non-sectarian nature of Krishna consciousness.
Room Conversation, July 31, 1976, New Māyāpur
Yogeśvara: ...hand-loomed silk.
Prabhupāda: Thailand silk.
Yogeśvara: Yes. He has invited me to go to Thailand to meet the Prime Minister in October.
Prabhupāda: Oh, if there is interview, you must go.
Yogeśvara: He is from Thailand.
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes, Bangkok.
Yogeśvara: And he's a multimillionaire. He owns approximately one third of all the land in Thailand.
Prabhupāda: Oh!
Hari-śauri: Very important man.
Yogeśvara: Chairman of many big businesses.
Prabhupāda: You have given books?
Yogeśvara: He has received books.
Prabhupāda: Where you met him?
Yogeśvara: His former secretary is now a devotee in this temple. She is from Thailand. And when he came to visit her in Paris, she introduced me to him, and since then he has spoken about us to his family, to businessmen. Many big people in Thailand.
Hari-śauri: People in Thailand are quite pious.
Prabhupāda: Yes. They are Indian culture. Their original culture is Indian. It is called Siam [pronounces like Śyām], Kṛṣṇa's name. And they have got the airplane, Garuda.
Hari-śauri: Yes. Garuda Airlines.
Prabhupāda: So they are devotees originally, all Kṛṣṇa devotees.
Yogeśvara: The king is speaking Sanskrit.
Prabhupāda: Yes. It was known. It has been changed now. Formerly, it was known as Syam state, Siam. Syam is the name of Kṛṣṇa. Whole state was named under that Kṛṣṇa. So, and they manufacture very nice idol of Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. They're accustomed.”
Please generously support this project over 5 years.
Transfer to our Thailand account by wire transfer. We will appreciate if you cover the costs of transfer from your side.
For tax receipts in US (US taxpayers) or India (Indian citizens only), please write to us at [email protected] for details.
Bangkok Bank Details
Bank Name: Bangkok Bank
Account Number: 1794912327
Account Name: Sri Sri Radhe Siam Foundation.
Branch Name: Bangchak Branch
IFSC: BKKBTHBK
