The
Yogapith temple in
Mayapur,
West Bengal, India, is a shrine constructed at the birth site of
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486โ1533). It was erected in the 1880s by
Bhaktivinoda Thakur (1838โ1914), a leading Gaudiya Vaishnava reformer and teacher, when, after much research, he rediscovered Chaitanya's original birthplace. Chaitanya founded
Gaudiya Vaishnavism, better known in the West by its branch, the
International Society for Krishna Consciousness, or the Hare Krishna movement.
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