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Bhakti reaches North America
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada arrives on Jalladuta ..
The Amsterdam Adventure Book
Amsterdam to Radhadesh
The Amsterdam story at a glance, 1965–1979
The timeline follows the chapters of The Amsterdam Adventure. Each entry links to the page that tells that part of the story in full, with its own video.
Fourteen years, from a New York storefront to a castle in the Ardennes. Choose a moment and step into the story.
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A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada arrives on Jalladuta ..
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Devotees chant the holy names on Dam Square; the Radha Krishna Temple later appears at the Concertgebouw.
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Mid-1970: a small team rents a two-bedroom apartment at Frissenstein 22 in the Bijlmermeer. The date is approximate in the supplied source.
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The community moves into a former bicycle-storage garage near Amsterdam’s Red Light District, which becomes a temple and communal home.
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During the winter of 1971–72, devotees chant in public through cold rain, drawing the attention of Dutch newspapers.
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In early 1972, Aksoja becomes temple president while Jagannatha dasa and others work on carving the Deities behind a curtain.
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The devotees send a formal petition to Queen Juliana and Amsterdam mayor Arnold Samkalden, requesting an audience for Srila Prabhupada.
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Prabhupada arrives at Schiphol Airport; that evening, kīrtana and prasādam replace the planned philosophical lecture at the Krasnapolsky Hotel.
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Prabhupada walks in Vondelpark and leads public kīrtana in the park’s amphitheatre.
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The Deity installation takes place at Bethaniënstraat; the supplied teaser also records Aksoja receiving sannyāsa on this day.
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The devotees develop daily worship, welcome new members, organise an incense workshop and begin wider book-distribution activity.
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By late 1975 the community moves from Bethaniënstraat to a seventeenth-century canal house at Herengracht 96.
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The supplied chapter teaser describes Sunday Love Feasts, a Govinda’s vegetarian restaurant, philosophy classes and Dutch-language book distribution.
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Prabhupada leaves this world in Vrindavan. The closing chapters describe the grief and organisational changes that followed.
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The community acquires Château de Petite Somme, which becomes Radhadesh, opening a new chapter in Wallonia.