Vivekanandar Illam

Vivekanandar Illam, earlier known as Ice House or Castle Kernan, is a historical building in Chennai, India. It was constructed in 1842 by Frederic Tudor. Indian Saint Swami Vivekananda stayed in the building when he visited Chennai in 1897, and it was later renamed in his honor. It is currently maintained by Ramakrishna Math and houses an exhibition on the life of Vivekananda.

History

In 1842, Frederic Tudor constructed the building facing the Bay of Bengal as a facility to store ice. In 1880, the business collapsed and the building was sold to Biligiri Iyengar, an advocate in the Madras High Court. Iyengar re-modeled the house and named it Castle Kernan after his friend and judge in Madras High Court.^[1] When Swami Vivekananda visited Madras in 1897, he stayed in the building between 6 and 14 February 1897. Later, Ramakrishna Math functioned from the building from 1897 to 1906.^{[citation needed]}

In 1914, the building was acquired by the Government of Madras and functioned as a hostel and training school for children run by R. S. Subbalakshmi. In 1963, on the birth Centenary of Swami Vivekananda, the Government of Tamil Nadu renamed the building as 'Vivekanandar Illam' meaning 'Vivekananda House' in Tamil. In 1997, Government of Tamil Nadu leased the building to Ramakrishna Math, and it currently houses an exhibition on the life of Swami Vivekananda.^[2]

See also

• Heritage structures in Chennai

References

External links

• vivekanandahouse.org, Vivekananda House, Chennai
• Lonely Planet Review on Vivekananda House

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Swami Vivekananda

Biography

• Birthplace
• Prayer to Kali at Dakshineswar
• Baranagar Math
• Swami Vivekananda's travels in India (1888–1893)
• Teachers
  • Ramakrishna
  • Sarada Devi
  • Relationship with Ramakrishna
• at the Parliament of the World's Religions (1893)
• in California

Works and
philosophy

Teachings and philosophy	Teachings and philosophy Vivekananda and meditation Influence and legacy of Vivekananda Neo-Vedanta
Books	Bibliography Sangeet Kalpataru Bartaman Bharat The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda Inspired Talks Jnana Yoga Karma Yoga Lectures from Colombo to Almora My Master Raja Yoga The East and the West
Poems/songs	"Kali the Mother" Khandana Bhava–Bandhana "My Play is Done" The Hymn of Samadhi The Song of the Sannyasin To the Fourth of July Nachuk Tahate Shyama
Lectures	"Buddhism, the Fulfilment of Hinduism" Christ, the Messenger Religion not the crying need of India Vedanta Philosophy
Miscellaneous	Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached Atmano mokshartham jagat hitaya cha Bahujana sukhaya bahujana hitaya cha

Foundations

• Advaita Ashrama
• Belur Math
• Ramakrishna Math
• Ramakrishna Math, Mangaluru
• Ramakrishna Mission
• Udbodhan
• Vedanta Society (New York)

Disciples
and friends

Monastic disciples	Shuddhananda Virajananda Swarupananda Paramananda
Other disciples and friends	Ajit Singh of Khetri Alasinga Perumal Emma Calvé J. J. Goodwin John Henry Wright Josephine MacLeod Sara Chapman Bull Sister Christine Sister Nivedita Abhayananda William Hastie

Memorials

• Vivekananda Rock Memorial
• National Youth Day (India)
• Swami Vivekananda Airport
• Swami Vivekananda Road metro station
• Swami Vivekanand Nagar
• Vivekanandar Illam
• Vivekananda Setu
• Swami Vivekananda statue (Golpark, Kolkata)
• 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda
• Swami Vivekananda Youth Employment Week
• Vivek Express

Depictions

Films	Swami Vivekananda (1955) Bireswar Vivekananda (1964) Swami Vivekananda (1998) Swamiji (2012) The Light: Swami Vivekananda (2013)
Dramas	Biley Bireswar

Namesake
educational
institutions

• Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University
• Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University
• Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College
• Swami Vivekanand Subharti University
• Swami Vivekanand University, Madhya Pradesh
• Vivekananda Degree College, Kukatpally
• Vivekananda Degree College, Puttur
• Vivekananda Global University
• Vivekananda Institution
• Vivekananda Kendra Vidyalaya
• Vivekananda Vidya Mandir

Books about

• Swami Vivekananda on Himself
• Life and Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda
• Notes of Some Wanderings with the Swami Vivekananda
• Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India
• Swami Vivekananda in the West: New Discoveries
• Pransakha Vivekananda
• Rousing Call to Hindu Nation
• The Master as I Saw Him

Researchers

• Sankari Prasad Basu
• Mani Shankar Mukherjee
• Marie Louise Burke

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• Commons
• Wikiquote
• Wikisource texts