Lord Jagannath, Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra Installation
at Newly built Hindu temple
10001 Riggs Rd, Adelphi, MD 20783
April 20-April 22, 2007
With the presence of Raj Guruji from Puri temple
General Information:
Indu Mishra: 410-428-7707
Naresh Das: 410 531 7445
Please contact the following coordinators with any specific questions regarding the function
Public relation: Bimal Mishra bimal_mishra@hotmail.com
Puja : Meera Mohapatra suemohapatra@yahoo.com
Food: Sudeep Patnaik sssnp@aol.com
Decoration: Mousumi Patnaik Maushumi_p@hotmail.com
Fund raising: Hemant Biswal hbiswal@hotmail.com
Cultural: Bigyani Das (bigyanidas@yahoo.com)
Julie Acharya Ray (ankapa67@yahoo.com)
Debaki Nandan Chowdhury (debaki@yahoo.com)
Every one is welcome to participate in this once in a lifetime program. As you know, event like this needs a lot of involvement and financial contribution from all of you. Therefore we request all of you to contribute generously for this cause to make it a grand success. We have the following categories of service for you. Please take part on any of these and get Lord's blessings. Please come and join in this effort to make this historical ceremony a memorable event.
1) Sankalpa Sponsorship -$200.00 (Couple sitting for Puja )
2) Kalasha Puja Sponsorship -$110.00 (Ladies will get puja saree and Kalash)
3) Mahadeepa Sponsorship - $25.00
4) Flower Offer Sponsorship - $50.00/day (you chose your day Fri-Sat-Sun)
5) Sari Offer to Subhadra - Sponsorship for this offer will cost $50.00
6) Saturday Mahaprasad - $150.00.
7) Sunday Mahaprasad - $150.00 .
8) Special blessing draw - There will be a lucky draw for this. Each ticket will cost $2.00. 50% of the total amount will go towards puja and 50% will be awarded to the winner.
May Lord Jagannath Bless You !
P.S - When you write a check to JOGA, please mention for "Jagannath Fund" so that the entire amount will be used for this event. and send to
JOGA, 4525 Rutherford Way, Dayton, MD 21036
Jagannath Organization for Global Awareness (JOGA) is a non-profit tax exempt organization and hence your donation is tax deductible.
Please confirm us by 10th April, which service you would like to offer.
The detailed program for the installation ceremony is as follows.
| Date | Time | Program |
| 04/20/2007 | 7:00 -10:00 PM | Ankunaropona, Dhanyadhibasa of the Deities, Mondolodhibasa and Salodhibasa |
| 04/21/2007 | 7:00 -10:00 AM | Surya Puja, Panchakarma, Mandladipujan, Pitha Pujan |
| 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM | Jalajatra (Kalash puja) | |
| 2:00 - 4:00 PM | Vaishnabagni, sanskara and Homakarmarmbha | |
| 4:00 - 6:00 PM | Snnana and sayana ceremony of the Deities. Arati, Puspanjali and Dikbali. | |
| 6:00 - 8:00 PM | Cultural Program (Odissi Dance by Masako Ono, disciple of Protima Bedi, Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra - Living and Teaching in Orissa for the last 15 years) | |
| 8:00 - 9:00 PM | Mahaprasad | |
| 04/22/2007 | 7:00 - 8:00 AM | Surya Puja, Gopujan and Guru pujan |
| 8:00 - 10:00 AM | Panchakarma and all Saladevata Pujanam | |
| 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM | Homa Karma | |
| 2:00 - 5:00 PM | Pranapratistha, Nyasadikarma of the Deities and the temple | |
| 5:00 - 6:00 PM | Deiteis enter the temple and take their respective seats on the Holy throne and Pujan | |
| 6:00 - 7:00 PM | Purnahuti | |
| 7:00 - 8:00 PM | Bhajan | |
| 8:00 - 9:00 PM | Mahaprasad |
List of Kalash puja (Jalajatra) Participants: Please try to reach by 9:30 AM on April 21st at the temple. The puja saree will ready for you to wear and join the procession to get water. The procession will be accompanied by kirtan by the devotees. Once you come back with water, the sacred water will be used for Lord's bathing, followed by puja till 12:00 PM. You are also invited to take prasad (lunch) and join other puja in the afternoon.
Kalash sponsors:
1.Julie Ray
2.Leena Mishra
3.Babita Nayak
4.Deepa Parija
5.Sushmita Behera
6.Sunanda Holmes
7.Sulochana Mohanty
8. Priti Biswal
9.Jhinu Chhotray
10.Lali Tripathy
11.Madhabi Das
12.Reema Raju
13.Sobhana Das
14.Bandita Mishra
15.Sujata Mohanty
16.Urmila Sahu
17. Bidhu Mishra
18. Linee Dhala
19. Hema Behera
20. Asha Khaturia
21. Manaswini Sahu
Sankalpa Sponsors:
1 Maushumi and Sandeep Patnaik
2.Meera and Shashadhar Mohapatra
3.Nita and Ajay Mohanty
4.Jhunu and Indu Mishra
5.Bandita and Nrusingha Mishra
6. Sulochana and Joygopal Mohanty
7. Namita and Chitaranjan Dash
8. Bigyani and Naresh Das