Ramakrishna Math, Bengaluru

The centre was founded in 1903 by Swami Ramakrishnananda (a monastic disciple of Sri Ramakrishna) elsewhere in Bengaluru and shifted to its present premises in 1909.

Activities:

• Vidyarthi Mandiram, a hostel with 130 college students.
• A library and a reading room with 12,300 books and 30 periodicals and newspapers.
• Balak Sangha and Yuvak Sangha, cultural and recreational centres with 150 boys and 75 young men respectively.
• Daily worship, bhajans, regular discourses, and lectures in and outside the Math.
• Celebration of the birth anniversaries of Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda and other religious luminaries.
• A publication department with 76 This year one new title and seven reprints were brought out.
• Welfare work by way of providing educational help to poor students, pecuniary help to the Rs. 57.4 lakh was spent during the year.