Join in this day of exciting festivity, culture & celebration with all your family and friends.
Bigge Park, Liverpool 10am Sunday June 29 2025
Festival of Chariots
We’re happy to announce that the Festival of Chariots will be proceeding this year on June 29, 2025. We look forward to sharing this blissful event again with all devotees and the broader community.
The colour, song, celebration and enormous masses of devoted participants amid the solemnity of the spirit of Ratha Yatra make it one of the world’s great spiritual gatherings and certainly one of the most exciting. The festival itself, along with its mystical and enormous Jagannath Temple place the Orissan host city of Puri firmly on the world map of great destinations for the devout and the curious alike.
The festival itself celebrates the fabled return of Sri Krishna, his brother Baladeva and sister Subhadra to their resident city of Dwarka 5000 years ago. The residents of that city, long bereaved over Sri Krishna’s absence greeted their return with much transcendental celebration. For devotees, this offers an unmatched opportunity to contemplate the pastimes of these divine personalities, share in elevated states of consciousness and directly engage in their worship.
The colour, song, celebration and devoted participants amid the solemnity of the spirit of Ratha Yatra make it one of the world’s great spiritual gatherings.
A festival with something for everyone! Join us for a day of colour, culture and sacred ceremony, featuring dance, song and a sumptuous vegetarian feast!
The chariot parade will commence from Bigge Park and proceed into the heart of Liverpool, where the entire community can share in the celebration of the festival.
Although the origins of Ratha Yatra are described in ancient India’s Vedic literature (including the Brahma, Padma and SkandaPuranas), details of the history of this “Festival of Chariots” are largely obscured by the mists of antiquity.
