Matri Mandir and Ramakrishna Mission Sarada Sevashrama, Jayrambati

The Matri Mandir (Math centre) was established in 1920 at Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi’s birthplace. The temple stands on the spot where she was born; it enshrines her sacred relics. The adjacent thatched cottages where the Holy Mother lived are preserved as sacred memorials.

Activities of Math Centre:

• Religious activities: Spiritual classes, daily worship, fortnightly Ramnam Sankirtan and celebration of the birth anniversaries of the Holy Trio and other spiritual luminaries, and major religious festivals.
• Welfare activities: Providing food, milk, clothes, winter garments, educational kits and pecuniary and medical aid.

Ramakrishna Yogashrama: This sub-centre of the Matri Mandir is in Koalpara, 8 km away from Jayrambati. It is a peaceful retreat. Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi has stayed here on several  occasions  while on her way to Kolkata from Jayrambati and also on her return journeys.

• A coaching centre.
• A library for poor students.
• Welfare activities: Providing clothes, winter garments and educational kits.
• Religious activities: Daily worship, Ramnam Sankirtan, religious discourses and celebration of religious festivals.

The Mission centre was founded in 1930.

Activities of Mission Centre:

• Two secondary schools (Bengali medium: class 5 to 10 and English medium: class 1 to 10).
• Two junior basic schools (Bengali medium: class 1 to 5).
• Fifty coaching centres.
• Pallimangal: Vocational training given to women in making incense sticks, weaving, tailoring, embroidery and beautification, and computer training.
• A homeopathic-cum-allopathic dispensary with a physiotherapy unit (43,128 patients were treated during the year).
• A mobile medical unit which treated 9189 patients and medical camps (thalassemia, BMD, hearing aid) that treated 578 cases.
• Welfare activities: Providing clothes, educational kits and medical aid.