Vedanta Societies

Vedanta Societies, first and most influential Hindu organization in the West, founded by Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902), a disciple of Indian mystic Ramakrishna (1836-86). Vivekananda attended an international religious conference in Chicago (1893), and later established the Vedanta Society of New York (1894), an organization devoted to service and mysticism. Vivekananda returned to India and founded the Ramakrishna Order (1897) to administer the network of Vedanta societies and humanitarian and religious activities. There are 20 centers in the United States.

Vedanta Society, and its variant Vedanta Centre, are terms covering organizations, groups, or societies formed for the study, practice, and propagation of Vedanta. Probably the first Vedanta Society was founded by Swami Vivekananda in New York in November 1894. Many of the existing Vedanta Societies are affiliated, either formally or informally, with the Ramakrishna Order.

List of Vedanta Societies and Centers

Africa

Australia

• Vedanta Centre of Sydney

Asia

• Nippon Vedanta Kyokai, Zushi, Japan · external link

Europe

• Centre Vedantique, Geneva external link
• Centre Vedantique Ramakrishna, Gretz, France · external link
• Ramakrishna Society Vedanta Centre, Moscow ·
• Ramakrishna Vedanta Centre, Bucks, UK · external link
• Ramakrishna Vedanta Sociey, Amstelveen, The Netherlands · external link
• Vedanta-Gesellschaft e. V., Sieg, Germany · external link

North America

• Ramakrishna Vedanta Society, Boston · external link
• Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, New York · external link
• Vedanta Center of Greater Washington DC · external link
• Vedanta Center of St Petersburg, Florida · external link
• Vedanta Society, New York · external link
• Vedanta Society, Portland, Oregon · external link
• Vedanta Society, Providence, Rhode Island · external link
• Vedanta Society of Berkeley · external link
• Vedanta Society of Northern California, San Francisco · external link
• Vedanta Society of Sacramento · external link
• Vedanta Society of St Louis · external link
• Vedanta Society of Kansas City
• Vedanta Society of Southern California, Hollywood · external link
• Ramakrishna Monastery, Trabuco Canyon
• Vedanta Society, San Diego
• Vedanta Society, Santa Barbara
• Vivekananda House, South Pasadena
• Vedanta Society of Toronto, Ontario · external link
• Vedanta Society of Western Washington, Seattle · external link
• Vivekananda Retreat, Ridgely, Stone Ridge, New York · external link
• Vivekananda Vedanta Society, Chicago · external link
• Vedanta Monastery and Retreat, Ganges, Michigan

South America

• Ramakrishna Vedanta Ashrama, Sao Paulo · external link
• Centro Ramakrishna Vedanta, Belo-Horizonte, Brazil · external link
• Centro Ramakrishna Vedanta, Curitiba-Parana, Brazil · external link
• Centro Ramakrishna Vedanta, Rio de Janeiro · external link
• Ramakrishna Ashrama, Buenos Aires · external link

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