ISKCON

International Society for Krishna Consciousness for Western Canada

ISKCON Vancouver

Welcome to the Vancouver Hare Krishna Temple's web page.

The official name for The Hare Krishna Movement is the International Society for Krishna Consciousness or ISKCON for short.

The society was founded in 1966 in New York by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
On the instruction of his spiritual master, guru, who is coming in an unbroken chain of disciplic succession dating back thousands of years,  Bhaktivedanta Swami, at the age of 70 travelled all alone to the New York to bring this ancient spiritual culture to western world.

Now the society that he started has over 400 centers, temples, asramas, rural communities around the world.