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Sangeetotsav on Janmashtami at Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir
Maithili Thakur sings for Janmashtami at Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir, published on her own channel.
Source: Maithili Thakur, official channel, checked 2026-08-17
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Live darshan from Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir
The temple keeps a darshan stream running on its own channel, carrying aarti, kirtan, and pravachan through the day. Open it on the mornings you cannot be there.
Source: Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir, official channel, checked 2026-08-17
Video
Maha aarti of Shri Radha Krishna at Prem Mandir
The maha aarti at Prem Mandir, written and composed by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj and filmed on his mission's official channel. Watch it full screen, with the sound on.
Source: Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj, official channel, checked 2026-08-17
Video
New this weekShringar aarti at Radha Rani Mandir, Barsana
The Barsana temple puts its own darshan on its own channel, day after day. This is the shringar aarti from 10 August 2026, thirteen minutes in front of Ladli Ji on the hill.
Source: Mandir Shri Ladlee Ji Maharaj Barsana, official channel, checked 2026-08-17
Braj filmThe cow and her calf
Chanting
Chanting
Kirtan Mela at Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir
The temple's Kirtan Mela, hours of kirtan streamed live from Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir and published on the temple's own channel.
Source: Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir, official channel, checked 2026-08-17
Chanting
The kirtan that keeps going
Kirtan at ISKCON Vrindavan's Krishna Balarama Mandir, where the maha mantra is sung day and night and published as it happens.
Source: ISKCON Vrindavan, official channel, checked 2026-08-17
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New this weekJanmashtami Utsav, 4 September 2026
The temple keeps Sri Krishna Janmashtami on 4 September this year, and calls it the 5253rd appearance day of Lord Krishna. You can join in person at Vrindavan, where accommodation and meals are arranged for those who come, or follow it online from anywhere. Sevas for the day are listed on the temple's own page, from the Laddu Gopal abhishek to annadan and gau seva.
Source: Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir, official website, checked 2026-08-17
Festival
Panihati and Nauka Vihar Utsav at the temple pond
The temple marked the Panihati Chida Dahi Mahotsav and Nauka Vihar Utsav together. The morning began with a mango alankara for the deities and a Chappan Bhog, then a pallaki carried Sri Sri Gaura Nitai to the pond for a panchamrita and pushpa abhisheka. Sri Chanchalapathi Dasa spoke on the festival, the deities were rowed across the water in a decorated boat, and chida dahi mahaprasadam was handed out from the boat to the gathered devotees.
Source: Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir, official website, checked 2026-08-17
Kirtan
Braj Mellows, an evening of devotional sankirtan
An evening of kirtan and bhajan at the temple, sung by children and matajis before Sri Sri Radha Vrindavanchandra. The temple describes the congregational chanting as a living tradition of Braj carried by voices of all ages.
Source: Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir, official website, checked 2026-08-17
Braj filmThe deer of the groves
Temples and places
Temple
Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir, live
Live darshan, festival updates, and the Square Feet seva, from the Hare Krishna Movement's temple rising in Vrindavan. The day runs from Mangal Arati at 4:30 in the morning to Shayana Darshan at 8:15 at night.
Source: Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir, official temple schedule, checked 2026-08-03
Temple
Radha Rani Mandir, Barsana
The temple of Shri Ladlee Ji Maharaj on the Barsana hill. Its own site lists darshan from 5 to 1, then 5 to 9 in the evening.
Source: Mandir Shri Ladlee Ji Maharaj, official website, checked 2026-08-12
Temple
Kirti Mandir, Radha in her mother's lap
Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj founded this temple in Barsana, and it opened on Basant Panchami in February 2019. Radha Rani is here as a child, seated in the lap of Kirti Maiya, her mother, with Shri Sita Ram on one side and Shri Radha Krishna on the other. It stands 111 feet, mixes Nagara and Dravidian styles, and carries 22 gold leafed kalash. Darshan runs 8:30 to noon, then 4:30 to 8 in the evening.
Source: Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj, official website, checked 2026-08-17
Temple
Banke Bihari, before you go
The mandir closes through the middle of the day and the hours move with the seasons. In summer, darshan runs 7:45 to noon, then 5:30 to 9:30 in the evening.
Source: Shri Banke Bihari Mandir, official website, checked 2026-08-17
Place
Nidhivan, the grove of saints
Small twisted trees that Vrindavan's saints hold to be devotees of Banke Bihari, in the forest where Swami Haridas meditated and sang.
Source: District Mathura, Government of Uttar Pradesh, checked 2026-08-12
Temple
Radha Raman, the lover of Radha
Built at the request of Gopala Bhatta Goswami around 1542, it houses the original shaligram deity of Krishna beside Radharani. The district counts it among the seven temples of Thakur of Vrindavan.
Source: District Mathura, Government of Uttar Pradesh, checked 2026-08-12
Temple
Krishna Balarama Mandir, Raman Reti
ISKCON's first temple, built in 1975 on the banks of the Yamuna where tradition says Krishna and Balarama herded their cows. Srila Prabhupada laid the foundation himself.
Source: District Mathura, Government of Uttar Pradesh, checked 2026-08-12
Temple
Prem Mandir, marble for the divine couple
Established and inaugurated by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj in February 2012, with Shri Radha Krishna and Shri Sita Ram on its altars, maintained by Jagadguru Kripalu Parishat. Open every day, 8:30 in the morning to noon, then 4:30 to 8:30 in the evening.
Source: Prem Mandir, official website, checked 2026-08-17
Place
Govardhan, seven days on a little finger
The district tells it plainly: Krishna lifted the mountain for seven days and nights. The 21 kilometer parikrama passes Radha Kund and Kusum Sarovar, 25 kilometers from Mathura on the Deeg road.
Source: District Mathura, Government of Uttar Pradesh, checked 2026-08-12
Temple
Radha Damodar, at Seva Kunj
Jiva Goswami established this temple in 1542 at Seva Kunj, and it ranks among the seven original Goswami temples of Vrindavan. When Aurangzeb's forces reached the town in 1670, the deities were carried to Jaipur for safety and did not return until 1739.
Source: District Mathura, Government of Uttar Pradesh, checked 2026-08-12
Temple
Rangji Mandir, a south Indian tower in Vrindavan
Two brothers from Mathura, Seth Sri Radhakrishnaji and Sri Govind Dasji, built this temple between 1845 and 1851 under the guidance of Sri Rangadeshik Swamiji, modelling it on the Ranganatha temple at Srirangam. Its seven-story western gopuram and Jaipur-carved stone gates mix south and north Indian temple architecture in a way found nowhere else in the town.
Source: Sri Rangji Temple, official website, checked 2026-08-12
Temple
Shah Ji Mandir, the hall of Belgian glass
Two brothers from Lucknow, Shah Kundan Lal and Shah Phundan Lal, began building this temple to Thakur Radha Raman in 1860, and the work took eight years. Its Basanti Kamra, also called Rituraj Bhawan, hangs fifteen Belgian glass chandeliers in white, crimson, yellow, orange red, and green beneath a painted dome.
Source: Shah Ji Temple, official website, checked 2026-07-27
Braj culture
Culture
Lathmar Holi, Barsana's answer
The district tells the legend plainly: Krishna came to tease Radha and her friends in her village, and Barsana's women chased him off. Men from Nandgaon still visit every spring, and the women still greet them with lathis, in the compound of what the district calls the only temple in the country dedicated to Radha.
Source: District Mathura, Government of Uttar Pradesh, checked 2026-08-12
Culture
Jhulan Yatra, the monsoon swing
ISKCON Vrindavan holds it from 23 to 28 August 2026. Sri Sri Radha Govinda are seated on a swing dressed in fragrant flowers, and devotees come to gently swing them, offer flowers, and sing kirtan. The temple calls it the divine swing festival of the monsoon.
Source: ISKCON Vrindavan, official website, checked 2026-08-17
Culture
Radhashtami, the day Barsana fills
Radha Rani's own temple keeps this as one of its two great festivals, alongside Lathmar Holi. It falls on the eighth day of the bright fortnight of Bhadrapada, the day the temple says Radha appeared, in Barsana, her birthplace. Lakhs of people come. They walk the parikrama of Gahvar Van on the hill, take darshan of Ladli Ji, and the town stays awake all night with kirtan and singing.
Source: Mandir Shri Ladlee Ji Maharaj, Barsana, official website, checked 2026-08-12
The van
The groves of Vrindavan, slow and still