Sri Dham Mayapur · West Bengal

Building the Dham, one seva at a time.

Mayapur Development Seva Trust raises and directs funds towards the physical foundations of Sri Dham Mayapur — the goshalas, schools, hospital, devotee residences, river ghats, gardens and roads that let a holy place function as a living community.

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Every rupee is tied to a named project, with accounts open to donors.

We buildShelter, schools, health care and cow protection
We restoreGanga ghats, gardens, roads and village lanes
We accountProject-wise budgets, records and reporting
About the Trust

A holy place still needs roofs, water and roads.

Sri Dham Mayapur draws pilgrims, students, families and lifelong residents from across the world. Holding that many people takes ordinary, unglamorous infrastructure — classrooms, wards, quarters, cattle sheds, drains, steps down to the Ganga.

Mayapur Development Seva Trust exists to fund and deliver exactly that. We work alongside the temple administration and local village bodies, take on individual projects with a defined scope and budget, and see them through to handover. Our work is construction and maintenance, not preaching — but it is what makes everything else possible.

  • One project, one budget. Donations are ring-fenced to the project they were given for.
  • Local hands first. Masons, carpenters and labour drawn from Mayapur and the villages around it.
  • Built to last. Structures designed for flood, monsoon and decades of heavy daily use.
  • Open books. Donors can ask for the accounts of any project they have given to.
Looking up into the main dome of the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium, its ribs and scaffolding radiating from the oculus
Seva, not charity Work offered in the service of the Dham
Our Work

Eight kinds of building, one purpose

Each of these is a standing programme. Some run continuously; others are taken up project by project as funds and permissions allow.

Cows feeding at a long trough inside a covered goshala shed
Cow protection

Goshalas

Cattle sheds, feed stores, fodder land, water points and veterinary facilities — so that cows and bulls are protected for their whole natural lives.

The Mayapur hospital building, with its pharmacy entrance and landscaped forecourt
Health

Hospital & Health Care

Wards, outpatient blocks, diagnostic rooms and ambulance facilities — open to devotees, pilgrims and the surrounding villages alike.

A multi-storey arcaded residential building for devotees in Mayapur
Housing

Devotee Quarters

Residential blocks for brahmacharis, families and lifelong residents — with reliable water, sanitation, power and safe access.

Illustration of a columned school building with children on the steps
Education

Schools & Gurukul

Classroom blocks, hostels, libraries, kitchens and playing fields for the gurukul and for village schools serving children around Mayapur.

Illustration of stone bathing steps leading down to the Ganga at dawn
Riverfront

Ganga Ghats

Bathing steps, embankments, railings, lighting and changing facilities along the Ganga and Jalangi — built to survive the monsoon rise.

Illustration of a flower garden with a pergola arch and a tulsi altar
Gardens

Sacred Gardens

Flower gardens grown for the daily worship of Sri Sri Radha Madhava and Gaura Nitai — with tulsi houses, nurseries, irrigation and pathways.

Illustration of a paved road lined with lamp posts and trees
Infrastructure

Roads & Lighting

Approach roads, internal lanes, drainage and street lighting, so pilgrims and residents can move safely through the Dham in every season.

Illustration of a Mayapur village with houses, a well and palm trees
Village

Mayapur Village

Wells and drinking water, sanitation, community halls and repairs to village homes — development that reaches the families who live here.

Mayapur Today

The Dham as it stands

The wider picture — the campus from the air, what has already been built, and what is drawn up and waiting on funds.

Aerial panorama of Sri Dham Mayapur, the temple at the centre of fields, roads and the surrounding villages
Sri Dham Mayapur from the airThe temple at the centre, the villages and fields around it.
An arcaded residential block with flowering plants kept along its frontage
Devotee residencesArcaded blocks for families and lifelong residents, with gardens kept along the frontage.
Architectural render of a new residential block planned for the Dham
Under designA new block, drawn up and costed, waiting on funds to start.
Current Focus

What the Trust is working on now

A short list, kept deliberately short. We would rather finish three things properly than announce thirty.

Under construction

Goshala expansion

Additional sheds, a fodder store and a covered water point, so that more cows can be sheltered through the monsoon months.

Scope ConstructionStage Structure
Ongoing

Ghat repair & lighting

Resetting displaced steps, renewing handrails and adding lighting along the bathing ghat, repeated after each flood season.

Scope RepairStage Continuous
In planning

Village water & sanitation

Deep tube wells and sanitation blocks for village households near the Dham, surveyed jointly with the local panchayat.

Scope UtilitiesStage Survey
Offer Seva

Four ways to take part

Whether you give once, give monthly, give materials or give your time, it is recorded against a named project and reported back to you.

Sponsor a project

Fund a whole piece of work — a shed, a classroom, a stretch of ghat — and receive its drawings, costs and photographs as it is built.

Give monthly

A standing contribution, however small, is what lets us commit to long jobs — a goshala does not stop needing fodder in a quiet month.

Give in kind

Cement, steel, timber, bricks, pipes, fodder, medical equipment, books. Material given directly is often worth more than its invoice.

Give your skill

Engineers, architects, surveyors, doctors, teachers and accountants — professional seva offered for a week or a season goes a long way.

Tell us what you would like to build.

Write to us with the kind of seva you have in mind and we will send back the projects it fits, with scope, costings and the way funds are handled.

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Contact

Get in touch

For seva enquiries, project sponsorship, material donations or anything to do with the Trust's accounts, write to us. We answer every message, usually within a few working days.

This form opens your own email app with the message ready to send, so nothing is stored on this website. You can also write directly to connect@mdstrust.co.in.