 This beautiful secluded mountain ashram is located in the Kumoan Hills in Uttar Pradesh. The first temple was inaugurated in June 1964. It is approximately 38 km from Nani Tal. Many hundreds of people visit the temples here every day, in season. Each year, during the June 15th bhandara, reportedly, more than one lakh (100,000) people are fed. Beautiful Gardens.
Some westerners are permitted to stay at this ashram. A letter of introduction and prior arrangement with the ashram are a must if you wish to stay in this impeccable ashram. Most people stay in Nani Tal or Bhowali and visit the temples during the day.
Rules are strictly enforced and individuals staying at the ashram are required to participate in morning and evening arati. The ashram is closed for a large portion of the year, because it becomes very cold.
 For more information you can write to Venod Joshi at: Shri Kainchi Hanuman Mandir and Ashram, P. O. Kainchi Dham, Nainital Jila, Uttaranchal (UA) India. No telephone is available.
It was some time in 1962 when Maharajji called for Shri Poornanand of Kainchi village while he himself waited sitting on parapet wall by the road side near Kainchi. When he came, they refreshed the memories of their first meeting which they had 20 years back in 1942. They discussed about the place around. Maharajji wanted to see the place where Sadhu Premi Baba and Sombari Maharaj had lived and performed Yagyas. The forest was cleared and Maharajji asked for the construction of a Chabootara (rectangular platform) covering the Yagyashala. Maharajji contacted the then "conservator of forests" and took possession of the requisite land on lease.
The Hanuman temple is built over the platform mentioned above. His devotees started coming from different places and a chain of bhandaras, kirtans, bhajans started. The Pran-Pratishtha of idols of Hanumanji and others was performed on 15th June in different years. Thus, 15th June is celebrated every year as Pratishtha Divas when a large number of devotees come to Kainchi and get Prasad. The number of devotees and the associated vehicular traffic is so large that the district administration has to make special arrangement to regulate the same. Accordingly some changes have been made in the whole complex so that people do not face any difficulty in movement.
Kainchi temple is of a special importance and each and every devotee's life. It was here that Ram Dass and other westerners spent a lot of good time with Maharajji. All devotees should pay a visit to this temple at least once.
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Construction of Maharaj's Temple
at Kainchi
Babaji left His physical body in the night of 10 September 1973. The
Kalash containing His ashes was already installed in Shri Kainchi dham.
Then, without any plan and design the construction work of Baba's
temple began in 1974. All His devotees cooperated (voluntarily).
The artisans and masons engaged in the construction work has an early
bath and wearing clean clothes began work, reciting Hanuman Chalissa
and chanting "Maharajji Ki Jai" (glory to Maharajji). When the
construction work was on, the devotees also recited Hanuman Chalissa
and did Kirtan by singing (Shri Rama - Jai Rama - Jai Jai Rama)>
Mothers also writing "Ramnam" on the bricks passed them on to the
workers. The whole atmosphere vibrated with the chanting of "Baba Neem
Karoli Maharaj Ki Jai". Influenced by the ardent devotion of the
Mothers for Babaji, the workers also developed the same feeling of
devotion, faith, reverance and love. It was Babaji's lila that he
infused these workers with the qualities of Vishwakarma (the architect
of Gods) and they remained busy with the construction work.
Now came 15th June 1976, the day for installation and consecration of
Maharajji's murti. Maharajji Himself had fixed June 15th as the
consecration of Kainchidham.
The Bagvat saptah and yajna etc. were completed before the installation
and consecration ceremony. The devotees installed Kalash and hoisted
flag on the temple with the sound of bells, gongs, drums and conches.
The sky vibrated with the sound of clapping. Kirtan and slogans of
glory to Babaji. The atmosphere was ecstatic and everyone had the
feeling of Babaji Maharaj's physical presence. Then with recitation of
hymns from Vedas and with the specified method of consecration ceremony
and worship, Maharajji's murti was installed. In this way, Babaji
Maharaj in the form of a murti is seated in Shri KainchiDham.
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