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221:(US$ 14,000) rupees for the work. Subrata Mukherjee, who was the Mayor of Kolkata at that time, said that the city agreed to the financial contribution after being "shown a few letters from devotees suggesting the installation of a giant statue of Swamiji at Gol Park in place of the old one." He added, "This is a necessity, in the light of overall development of the Gol Park area."
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Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture was given the responsibility for carrying out maintenance of the park and adjacent area at Golpark by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation in 2006. A major two-month renovation of the park was undertaken in 2010, using funds provided by the Times Foundation;
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In 2005, the
Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture decided to replace the old marble statue with a taller bronze one. Swami Gahanananda, the president of the institute, said in May 2005 that the old statue did not fit well with the urban development of Golpark and South Kolkata area—it was
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The original statue of Swami
Vivekananda at Golpark was seven feet tall and made of marble. It was installed in 1966, sixty-four years after Vivekananda's death. In 2005, it was moved to the Mission's Golpark campus to make room for a new, larger statue.
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Golpark is a landmark in South
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The bronze statue of Swami
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and unveiled in 1966, was the oldest statue of Swami
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which was established by Swami
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Notes of Some
Wanderings with the Swami Vivekananda
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757:Atmano mokshartham jagat hitaya cha
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487:Relationship with Ramakrishna
324:. 28 May 2010. Archived from
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1582:Tallest statues in India
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386:The Telegraph (Calcutta)
54:1966 (old marble statue)
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695:Nachuk Tahate Shyama
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805:Ramakrishna Mission
674:The Hymn of Samadhi
393:on 22 February 2014
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257:Subhas Chandra Bose
244:Ramakrishna Mission
146:Ramakrishna Mission
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72:Marble (old statue)
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1251:Marie Louise Burke
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