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Hindu Shrine detail at Bharat Bhavan, November 2006

In preparation for erecting the Cambridge Hindu Shrine, most of the building work in Bharat Bhavan has been completed now and the hall at the Mill Road bridge is open for user groups. Check the building work UPDATE
& view photos of the building work.

Bharat Bhavan means "House of India". It is used by the Indian Cultural and Community Association, ICCA,
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It will soon become a proper Hindu shrine for Cambridge and the region. Most of the ICCA members are connected with Gujrati.

The ICCA aspires to the beautiful words of Mahatma Gandhi: "I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be closed, instead I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible."
All mayor Indian festivals celebrated here and guests are welcome to join in.

Location of Bharat Bhavan Cambridge:

Bharat Bhavan Cambridge, view from Mill Road, foot of railway bridge

The big red brick building in Mill Road between Kingston Street and the railway bridge, adjacent to Regent Language School right at the foot of the railway bridge, has has been known as "The Old Library" in the past.

Postal address:
Bharat Bhavan, [Bharat Way,] Mill Road, Cambridge, CB1 2AZ.
Click here to see location in Cambridge street map (you can zoom this map in and out at right bottom corner)

Parking is limited; try car park Gwydir Street, just behind the Bath House Mill Rd. (pay & display - free after 5pm & on Sundays) or streets in the neighbourhood. If you park in front of the building, make sure the access to the depot is free for heavy lorries and buses at all times.
NO ILLIGAL PARKING - the traffic wardens have their depot next door and are patrolling past every hour!

Public transport: busses Citi 2, 16, 17, stop "Gwydir Street".
10 min walk from the railway station (just walk to the right across the station carpark, under the cycle bridge with plastc tunnel and carry on until you come to Mill Road: you see Bharat Bhavon opposite, as on the photo above)
From the central bus station walk past the police station and fire brigade about one Kilometer along Mill Road - just before the railway bridge on your left is Bharat Bhavan. Or take bus "Citi 2" towards Addenbrooke's until 'Gwydir Street'.

Altar at Bharat Bhavan, 4th June 2007

You can rent this beautiful spacious hall

NEW separate page with instructions how to book Bharat Bhavan

Useful ICCA contacts:

• Bookings officer Ralph Nimmann
• NEW official & general ICCA e-mail contact: (Suresh Patel & holiday cover, when Ralph is away)
• ICCA treasurer (storage supervisor) Mr. Rasik Kotecha - phone: 01223 56 44 77 [ business phone: 01223 42 55 77 ],
  70 Bishops Road, Trumpington, CB2 2NH, - e-mail:
• ICCA secretary (emergencies, heating & technical problems, keys): Ricky Chudasa, (01223 242 885) - mobile: 07976 855 330 -
• ICCA (chair & building work co-ordinator) Suresh Patel, NEW phone: 01954 787142 (fax: 01954213190) - NEW mobile (from 2007): 07772019679 - NEW e-mail:

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