Temple-Facing Apartments in Mayapur for Krishna Conscious Families
Designing Homes for Multigenerational Devotional Living
Devotional living By installing apartments that look on to temples, the Mayapur city planners are creating a radical change in the practice of family living today that is injecting sacred dynamism within the household. These special houses have large windows and balconies which are facing towards the ISKCON temple, so that families are able to watch arati ceremonies and festivals in their habitation areas. Even the architects have made considerate designs of puja rooms with views of temples, inbuilt altar spaces, soundproofing, etc which can enable personal worship and even joining a kirtan. Our homes are ideal, especially to the Krishna conscious families, to bring up children with spiritual thoughts and in this way the reminder of the temple is in sight whereby the picture of the temple is always in the sight and this allows the parents to create a sattvic environment as parents go about their daily routines.
The Spiritual Benefits of Temple Proximity in Daily Life
Residing in the sight of Mayapur ISKCON temple has rich spiritual benefits which are beyond the convenience aspect. Through the daily contact with the spiritual structure of the temple, one will always remember about the spiritual ambition during the course of the day. Respondents describe homes with temple view to give birth to children, who grow up with stronger attachment to devotional life and they even participate in prayers, when they do so without any command, just on seeing activities in the temple through their windows. Such apartments are usually designed acoustically such that the peaceful kirtans of the evening are able to softly waft into living quarters and establish an organic cadence to the day to day worship. This unconventional household setting serves not only personal spiritual practice but also group family devotion, and it does so in a way which has a profound influence on spiritual development over time.
