Ramakrishna Math (Kashipur Udyanbati), Cossipore, Kolkata

This garden house was sanctified by Sri Ramakrishna’s stay with his disciples during the last few months of his life, as also by his mahasamadhi in 1886. It was made a branch of Ramakrishna Math in 1946.

Activities:

1. A library with 3671 books.
2. Daily worship, bhajans, weekly religious classes, and occasional discourses in the ashrama and elsewhere.
3. Celebration of Kalpataru Utsava, and the birth anniversaries of Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda and other religious personalities.
4. Maintenance of a memorial at Cossipore crematorium where Sri Ramakrishna’s mortal body was cremated.
5. A unit of Gadadhar Abhyudaya Prakalpa with  100  poor children. Children were also given training in basic computer operations.
6. Welfare work by way of providing stipends to students, and milk and blankets to poor and needy people.