Shri Prakash Gossai Marg Way (Queens)
Present name:86th Street
Location:Between 101st Avenue and 102nd Avenue
Honoree: Mr. Shri Prakash Gossai, born in Guyana in 1953, came to the United States in 1983 on a teaching scholarship for marine biology. He taught for 10 years at Thomas Jefferson High School, serving underprivileged youth. He had a strong connection to spirituality and went to India for intensive study of Vedant Hindu philosophy. After his studies, he founded the Bhuvaneshwar Mandir in 1984 in Brooklyn and then founded the Queens branch located at 86-01 101st Avenue in 2004. At Bhuvaneshwar Mandir, he was able to distill the wisdom he had attained in India, and package it into easily accessible, practical, and inspirational advice on living life efficiently while striving for peace in the world. Mr. Gossai went back to Guyana in 2006 as the Spiritual Advisor to the President of Guyana. This was his dream and it was there that his millions of devotees around the world learned of his untimely passing in 2009. (Ulrich)
LL:2018/139