TOURIST PLACES OF INDIA / TOURIST BUREAU INDIA: TOURIST PLACES OF KARNATAKA,BANGLORE TOURIST PLACES

Banglore tourist Places

Iscon Temple:-

This temple is located @ Rajajinagar,in North Banglore, Karnataka,India.The temple has a huge Cultural Complex that was inagurated in1997 by shankar dayal Sharma.The temple is concieved and executed by madu pandith dasa. HDG A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the Founder-Acarya of ISKCON to promote Vedic culture and spiritual learning.

The temple is situated on ''Hare Krishna Hill''.Iscon Banglore is a charitable society with objective of propogating Sri krishna's conciousness all over the World.

There is a gold-plated dhwaja-stambha (flag post) 17 m (56 ft) high and a gold plated kalash shikara 8.5 m (28 ft) high. There is free distribution of Sri Krishna prasadam to all visitors during the darshana hours.

Temple timings

Open @ 4:15am-5:15am[Maha mangalarathi time]

5:15 am to 7:15 am: Meditation & Temle remains open till 1:30pm.

Again open from 4:15-8:15pm

During weekends and public holidays Temple timings are 4:15 am to 5:00 am and 7:15 am to 8:30 pm without any break in the afternoon. The evening arati starts at 7:00 pm where devotees sing kirtan. In the main temple the arati is performed by three priests. This arati is followed again by kirtan where devotees can be seen dancing to the rhythm of "Hare Krishna Hare Rama".

Shrines

Radh Krishna

Srinivasa

Krishna Balrama

Srila prabupada

Festivals

Ramanavami

Brahmotsava

Narasimha Jayanthi

Ratayatra

Balram Jayanthi

Jhulan utsav

Sri Krishna Janmastami

Vaysa Pooja

Sri Radhastami

Deepotsava

Govardhan pooja

Vaikunta Ekadashi

Nityananda Trayodashi

Gaura Poornima

Krishna Shringar

KUmbabisheka

Social services

ISKCON Bangalore provides free food to those in need. The Akshaya Patra Foundation is one initiative started by members of the temple, which has received praise from United States President Barack Obama for feeding and educating children across India.A TV documentary has also been made on Akshaya Patra Foundation,

The Akshaya Patra Foundation is principally involved in implementing the Mid-Day Meal programme to the children in Government and Government-aided schools across India. It follows a Public-Private Partnership model of operation, and hence has been working in partnership with the Central and State Governments.

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Cubbon Park

Cubbon Park located in heart of benglore city in Central Administrative Area.It wsas created durig 1870 When mejor General Richard Sankey was the then British Chief Engineer of Mysore state. It covered an area about 100acres. Subsequent expansion has taken place and the area reported now is about 300 acres.

numerous impressive and aesthetically located buildings and statues of famous personages, in its precincts.This public park was first named as Meade’s Park after Sir John Meade, the acting Commissioner of Mysuru in 1870 and subsequently renamed as Cubbon Park after the longest serving commissioner of the time, Sir Mark Cubbon. To commemorate the Silver Jubilee of Sri Krishnaraja Wodeyar’s rule in Mysore State, in 1927, the park was again renamed as Sri. Chamarajendra Park, in memory of the 19th-century ruler of the state Sri Chamarajendra Wodeyar (1868–94), during whose rule the park came into existence. The landscaping in the park creatively integrates natural rock outcrops with thickets of trees, massive bamboos, with grassy expanse and flowerbeds and the monuments within its limits, regulated by the Horticulture Department of the Government of Karnataka. The predominantly green area of the park has many motorable roads, and the well-laid-out walking paths running through the park are frequented by early morning walkers and the naturalists who study plants in the tranquil natural environment.

Tourists visiting this park in the city of Bengaluru have nicknamed the city itself as 'Garden City'.

U can also see the another Garden ''Lal Bagh''

It is also called by the name ''Freedom park''.

It has many Botanical Assistance Namely

Araucaria, Bamboo, Castanospermum Australe, Grevillea Robusta, Millettia, Peltophorum, Schinus Molle, Swietenia Mahagoni, Tabebuia. sp etc.

Amongst the ornamental and flowering exotic trees lining the roads in the park are the Grevillea Robusta (silver oak)—the first oaks introduced to Bangalore from Australia—and the Delonix or the Gulmohar tree (bright red flowers with long petals) along the Cubbon road in the park, which is a widely cultivated tropical ornamental tree around the world.

There is an Musiam inside the park.The original collection in the museum belonged to Benjamin L. Rice of the Mysore Gazetteer, antiquities from Mohenjodaro period are on display in the Museum. Exhibits in the Museum include specimens of Vijaynagara and Halebid architecture, ancient coins and stone inscriptions as old as 5000 years.

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Other Places to See in Banglore

Wonderla

Park Timings

Mon-Fri: 11:00 AM to 06:00 PM

Sat-Sun/Holidays: 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM

Banglore Fort

Bangalore Fort in 1537 as a mud fort. The builder was Kempe Gowda I, a vassal of the Vijaynagar Empire and the founder of Bangalore, now Bengaluru. Haider Ali in 1761 replaced the mud fort with a stone fort. The army of the British East India Company, led by Lord Cornwallis on 21 March 1791 captured the fort in the siege of Bangalore during the Third Mysore War (1790–1792). At the time the fort was a stronghold for Tipu Sultan. Today, the fort's Delhi gate, on Krishnarajendra Road, and two bastions are the primary remains of the fort. A marble plaque commemorates the spot where the British breached fort's wall, leading to its capture. The old fort area also includes Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace, and his armoury. The fort has provided the setting for the treasure hunt in the book Riddle of the Seventh Stone.

Banglore Palace

Address: Palace Road, Near Mount Carmel Institute Of Management, Vasanth Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560052

Phone:080085 37122

Hours: 10:30AM–5:30PM

Vidhana Soudha

Origin

Kengal Hanumanthaiah is credited with the conception and construction of the Vidhana Soudha. The foundation stone was laid by the then Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, on July 13, 1951.[However, it was Hanumanthaiah who was instrumental in the redesign and speedy construction of Vidhana Soudha. He visited Europe, Russia, the United States, and other places and got the idea of building the Vidhana Soudha by incorporating various designs from the buildings he had seen. It was completed in 1956. He took a lot of interest and effort in building this marvelous granite building. It was meant to dwarf the British-built Athara Kacheri (High Court) building.Hanumanthaiah was criticized for the nearly 15 million rupees spent to construct the building. But the building designed by him is an impressive structure of Neo Dravidian style.