Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir

“I have named this temple Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir, the Rising Moon of Mayapur. Now make it rise, bigger and bigger until it becomes the full moon. And this moonshine will be spread all over the world. All over India they will come to see. From all over the world they will come…”

(Letter to Ramesvara — West Bengal 25 October, 1974)

“If there is opportunity, as we are contemplating, we shall show here in Caitanya-candra…, er, Māyāpur-candrodaya temple. That is our plan, to make a very big temple and to show all the planetary system within that from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. It will not be an ordinary temple, so that people from the whole world, they will come. This is our contemplation.”

(Lecture on SB 7.9.8 — Mayapur, February 15, 1976)