Directions
The Vedanta Society of New York is located at 34 West 71st street on the west side of Central Park in Manhattan, New York, a few blocks south of the Museum of Natural History and a few blocks north of Lincoln Center. You may take the B or the C train to 72nd street.
Before moving to its current permanent home in 1921, Vedanta Society was in rented apartments in many different parts of Manhattan. Vedantists and followers of the Ramakrishna Movement may find the information below interesting.
Homes of the Vedanta Society of New York
(As accurately as can be traced)
Year | Address | Source | Resident Swami |
1895 | 54 West 33 St | Marie Louise Burke, Swami Vivekananda in the West: New Discoveries, Vol III: p. 574 | Swami Vivekananda |
1895/96 | 228 West 39 Street | Ibid., III: p. 578 | Swami Vivekananda |
1896 | 509 Fifth Ave/42 St | Ibid., IV: p. 345 | Swami Saradananda |
1897 | 117 Lexington Ave | Swami Abhedananda, Amar Jivankatha, p. 138 | Swami Abhedananda |
1897 | 170 Lexington Ave | Complete Works of Swami Abhedananda, Vol X: p. 15 | Swami Abhedananda |
1899 | 146 East 55 Street | Sister Shivani, An Apostle of Monism, p. 290 | Swami Abhedananda |
1900 | 102 East 58 Street | Marie Louise Burke, Swami Vivekananda in the West: New Discoveries, Vol V: p. 145, Vol VI: pp. 266, 307 | Swami Abhedananda |
1905 | 62 West 71 Street |
Vedanta Monthly Bulletin, (Apr. 1905) I:cover | Swami Abhedananda |
1907 | 135 West 80 Street | Vedanta Monthly Bulletin, (Apr. 1907) III: pp. 14, 61 (Mar. 1908) III: pp. 12, 207 | Swami Abhedananda |
1915 | 236 Central Park West | Vedanta Quarterly, Oct 1915, p. 236, Message of the East | Swami Bodhananda |
1921 -- | 34 West 71 Street |
Prabuddha Bharata, Awakened India (July 1922), p. 280 | Swami Bodhananda Swami Pavitrananda Swami Tathagatananda |