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Address and Activities of Colombo Centre |
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Ramakrishna Mission, Colombo
Colombo
Ramakrishna Mission
40 Ramakrishna Road
Colombo 6, Sri Lanka
Phone: 94-11-258 8253 & 11- 5013805
Email: rkmcey@gmail.com
(Click here for the activities of the centre)
Sub Centre :
Ramakrishna Mission
Ramakrishna Puram
Kalladi-Uppodai, Batticaloa
Sri Lanka
Phone: 94-65-222 2752
Boys' Home: 94 60 2651269
Family Health Centre: 94 65 2227500
Email: rkmbat@gmail.com
Though the Mission started functioning in the island in 1924 with the management of a few schools, the centre in Colombo was formally established in 1930. Swami Atmaghanananda is the swami-in-charge of the centre.
Activities:
- A free library and a reading room with 7800 books and 23 newspapers and magazines.
- A Sunday school for children with 756 on roll.
- An International Cultural Centre with guest rooms, library, etc.
- Welfare work such as pecuniary help to the poor, educational aid to students, and free monthly medical camps for children and destitutes, spending Sri Lankan Rupees 44,79,798 this year.
- Lectures in the ashrama's Swami Vivekananda Centenary Memorial Hall, one of the biggest auditoriums in Colombo.
- Personality development camps for children from schools all over Colombo.
- Daily worship, weekly classes, fortnightly retreats, and occasional festivals.
- Celebration of the birthdays of prophets.
- A sub-centre at Batticaloa with the following activities:
- Three orphanages with a total of 61 boys and 79 girls.
- Two nursery schools with 119 children.
- A Sunday school with 300 children.
- Daily worship and weekly congregational prayers.
- Occasional classes at Mantivu Lepers' Asylum, where it maintains a temple for the inmates and local people of the village.
- Welfare work by way of providing school stationery, clothes, building materials and financial assistance to destitute children and refugees (7,30,884 Sri Lankan rupees spent this year).
Additional Photos of the Activities of the Centre:
Educational
Library & Reading Room
Orphanage
Vocational Training Centre
Medical
Dispensary
General Medical Camp
Relief
Flood
Food
Houses
Shops
Book-stall
Spiritual
Religious Activities
Yoga Classes
discourses
Temple
Shrine
Temple
Welfare
Pecuniary Help
Youth Welfare Programmes
Study Circle
W S A R C H I V E
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This information on Centre's activities is collected from The General Report
of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission April 2006, (From April 2004
to March 2005
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