Meher Pilgrim Retreat
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| The new Pilgrim Centre. Click image for larger view. |
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The Meher Pilgrim Retreat: a new, 88,000 square-foot pilgrim facility that provides meals and overnight accommodation for 200 visitors, opened on June 15, 2006. Situated on a scenic plateau in a rural corner of the Trust estate, the Meher Pilgrim Retreat overlooks Meher Baba’s Samadhi, just a kilometer away along one of the pedestrian view corridors (see photo). To the south and east, it over looks rolling hills and ravines. To the north, it overlooks Ahmednagar valley. The MPR takes its place in a greater and expanding Meherabad that seems to be in a phase of transition. The building itself is a mark of this, a large, magnificent structure, with its arches and courtyards and balconies and beautiful art displays, set in a new topography on the back side of Meherabad Hill, with its wide open spaces and panoramic vistas.
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