As of August 1, 2020, the Alachua Hare Krishna Temple is on the following modified schedule for visitors. Up to 35 devotees can attend the daily morning program, Mangal Arati, Japa (outdoors), Greeting of the Deities and Guru Puja, as well as Srimad-Bhagavatam Class. Visitors can come during the day only at scheduled arati times, when there is a priest (pujari) on the altar performing a worship ceremony. (See the current arati schedule at the bottom of this web page.) Community members can continue to sign up to lead kirtans during the various daily aratis. And we are accepting visitors on Sundays for walk-through Deity Darshan between 4:15 pm and 6:30 pm, with free prasad to-go boxes handed out to all visitors at the exit gate. Face masks are required indoors and anytime you’re near others, and you’ll need to observe a strict physical distancing protocol of staying 6-feet apart. The temple will close early, at 7:00 pm every evening, including on Sundays.

RESTRICTIONS ON VISITING THE TEMPLE:  If you, or any member of your household, is feeling sick with a fever, cold, runny nose, cough, ‘flu, shortness of breath, diarrhoea, an respiratory illness, or if you have traveled within the past 14 days outside the state, or in any of the following “dark purple” counties where COVID-19 is spreading at a high rate per capita, please stay home and do not visit the temple. If you or any member of your household has, within the past 14 days, been diagnosed with symptoms that could potentially be a COVID-19 infection, or has tested positive for COVID-19, do not come to the temple until you have fully recovered and have confirmation of a negative test result. If you, or any member of your household, has recently come in contact with another person who has tested positive for COVID-19, please do not come to temple for 14 days following that contact, to ensure you do not have the virus. Thank you for your cooperation.

All visitors, guests, devotees, volunteers, staff must wear face masks when indoors, or around other people at the temple, and maintain physical distancing of at least 6 feet apart between others. It is especially important that everyone wear their masks while singing inside the temple room, including the person leading the kirtan.

On holy days and festivals, additional restrictions apply. To avoid overcrowding, we do not allow non-residents to participate in the morning program at the temple on such days. Instead, we usually provide a time for walk-through darshan in the late afternoon and evening, along with a packaged prasad feast in to-go boxes, similar to our Sunday schedule.