{"id":288,"date":"2010-01-13T21:08:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T21:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iskconuk.com\/?page_id=288"},"modified":"2022-05-05T16:27:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T16:27:42","slug":"rathayatra-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/iskconuk.com\/?page_id=288","title":{"rendered":"Rathayatra in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/RathayatraUk-FestivalOfTheChariots?format=sigpro\" type=\"text\/javascript\" ><\/script><noscript><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to RSS headline updates from: <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/RathayatraUk-FestivalOfTheChariots\"><\/a><br \/>Powered by FeedBurner<\/p>\n<p> <\/noscript><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"title\">Welcome to the ISKCON UK Rathayatra<\/h1>\n<p><!-- begin content --><\/p>\n<div class=\"node\">\n<p>    <span class=\"submitted\">Submitted by pkaruna on Tue, 2005-10-18 16:54.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Lord Jagannatha with Subhadra devi and Baladeva\" alt=\"Lord Jagannatha with Subhadra devi and Baladeva\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rathayatra.co.uk\/files\/london-ry-website.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"259\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"600\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><strong>Rathayatra is celebrated by devotees of Lord Krishna all over the world after being introduced to the west in 1967 in San Franscisco by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and his first American disciples.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Srila Prabhupada dances at Rathayatra\" alt=\"Srila Prabhupada dances at Rathayatra\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rathayatra.co.uk\/files\/images\/prabhupada-at-rathayatra_0_0.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"173\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"130\"><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Rathayatra is the International Society for Krishna Consciousness&#8217; biggest street festival &#8211; it features three huge, wooden chariots pulled by hand accompanied by;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> singing<\/li>\n<li>chanting<\/li>\n<li>drums<\/li>\n<li>cymbals<\/li>\n<li>and dancing <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The procession ends with a stage show, festival and delicious vegetarian prasadam feast. <\/p>\n<p>This website has information about the history of Rathayatra, the origin of the festival, and up to date news on UK Rathayatras (and some further afield).<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"node\/11\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"London Rathayatra 2005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rathayatra.co.uk\/files\/ry2005.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"213\" width=\"364\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"textsm\">Rathayatra in London <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;The first UK Rathayatra was held in London in 1969. <\/p>\n<p>It went to Battersea Park for several years in the 1980s and 90s. Now it goes to Trafalgar Square as originally.<\/p>\n<p>On the <a href=\"node\/6\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">video page<\/a> there is footage of London Rathayatra in 1973 where ISKCON founder Srila Prabhupada danced and spoke at Trafalgar Square.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe to RSS headline updates from: Powered by FeedBurner Welcome to the ISKCON UK Rathayatra Submitted by pkaruna on Tue, 2005-10-18 16:54. Rathayatra is celebrated by devotees of Lord Krishna all over the world after being introduced to the west in 1967 in San Franscisco by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-288","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iskconuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iskconuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iskconuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iskconuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iskconuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/iskconuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iskconuk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}