Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama, Prayagraj (Allahabad)

The Math and Mission centres were founded by Swami Vijnanananda, a monastic disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, in 1908 and 1910 respectively.

Activities of the Math centre:

1. Daily worship, recitation of Hanuman Chalisa, Ramanam & Shyamanam Sankirtan, and regular religious classes, spiritual retreats and lectures in and outside the ashrama.
2. Celebration of the birth anniversaries of Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda, Swami Vijnanananda, and some other religious teachers.

Activities of the Mission centre:

1. A homeopathic-cum-allopathic dispensary.
2. A computer training centre.
3. Two units of Gadadhar Abhyudaya Prakalpa.
4. Weekly personality development classes for boys and girls.
5. A library and a reading room (with a separate section for children), having 34,435 books and 54 newspapers and periodicals.
6. A camp at Magh Mela with a dispensary, religious discourses, a bookstall, an exhibition, boarding and lodging facilities.
7. Welfare work by way of providing food, distributing clothes, hygienic kits and educational kits to the poor.