Ramakrishna Ashrama and Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Dehradun (Kishanpur)

The ashrama was started in 1916 and was made a branch of the Ramakrishna Math in 1919.

Activities of the Math centre:

• A public library.
• Religious activities: Daily worship, Ramnam Sankirtan on Ekadashi days, spiritual discourses, and celebration of the birth anniversaries of the Holy Trio and other spiritual luminaries and major religious festivals.
• Welfare activities: Distribution of food in nearby slum areas.

The Mission centre was started in 1974.

Activities of the Mission centre:

• An eye hospital (including 2 vision centres) & eye camps.
• A homeopathic-cum-allopathic dispensary.
• Five units of Gadadhar Abhyudaya Prakalpa and 2 units of Vivekananda Abhyudaya Prakalpa.
• Welfare activities: Providing ration kits, clothes and winter garments.