ISKCON Kirtan Ministry · Worldwide

World Holy Name Festival 2026

17–23 September 2026 · the festival in figures

Final results · declared 6 October 2026

Reporting closed on 5 October 2026. These are the festival’s final figures.

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Every figure on this page comes from a report sent by a devotee.

Final festival totals

Final

Gathered from reports sent by temples and devotees worldwide

Reports received

458

629 programmes held

Countries reporting

6

4 continents

Participants reported

25,182

in the first year of reporting

Hours of Holy Name

1,070.7

From 36 centres

Average per programme
40 participants
In days and hours
44 days 14 hours of Holy Name
Photographs published
43

Kinds of programme reported

  • Nagar Sankirtan231
  • Harinama Sankirtana68
  • Book Distribution with Kirtan65
  • Online Program56
  • Home Program16
  • Other10
  • Japathon7
  • Kirtan Mela5

Reporting closed 5 October 2026 · results declared 6 October 2026

Where the Holy Name has been chanted

Built from reports reviewed and published by the ISKCON Kirtan Ministry

Each mark is a country that has sent a report. 6 countries so far, across 4 of the six continents. Drag the globe to turn it, or choose a country in the table. The globe could not be loaded. The table beside it lists every country that has sent a report.
Countries that have published a report, with the programmes, participants and hours of Holy Name reported from each. This table carries the same information as the globe.
CountryReportsProgrammesParticipantsHours
India44661423,4351,018.2
Ireland777815
Australia251,04716
Hungary1160015
Switzerland1172.5
United States11154
All countries45862925,1821,070.7

Showing all countries.

The festival week

Seven days, 17–23 September 2026. A column holds the reports whose date of event falls on that day.

  1. Thursday 17 September 2026: 32 reports
  2. Friday 18 September 2026: 18 reports
  3. Saturday 19 September 2026: 75 reports
  4. Sunday 20 September 2026: 21 reports
  5. Monday 21 September 2026: 16 reports
  6. Tuesday 22 September 2026: 169 reports
  7. Wednesday 23 September 2026: 120 reports

451 reports give a date of event inside the festival week; 5 give a date outside it; 2 give no date. The date of event is an optional field on the report form.

Where the first year reached

Year one

The Ministry set these aims for where the festival should one day reach. 2026 was the first year reports were gathered at all, so this is the baseline every year ahead is measured from.

Goal

78

Countries

6 countries in the first year

Goal

1,256+

Temples & centres

36 centres took part

Goal

25M+

Participants

25,182 devotees chanted

See which cities and centres these figures came from

The Ministry’s wider aspiration for the festival was 108 million+ maha mantras chanted worldwide. Reports recorded hours of Holy Name rather than a count of mantras, so this one is offered as it was set: a goal, not a measured result.

Reports by continent

Every published report, grouped by the continent given on the form

Reports by continentAsia 446 reports (97.4%). Europe 9 reports (2%). Australia 2 reports (0.4%). North America 1 report (0.2%).
Asia
446
Europe
9
Australia
2
North America
1

4 of the six continents have reported

  • Asia: 446 reports
  • Europe: 9 reports
  • North America: 1 report
  • Australia: 2 reports

From the festival

Photo submitted with the World Holy Name Festival 2026 sankirtan report from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Temple, Ahmedabad, India Photograph shared with the report from Ahmedabad

Temples and Communities Taking Part

Participants reported by each temple and community, as published by the Kirtan Ministry

  • 415 from temples
  • 30 from congregations
  • 13 from individuals

Temple or communityParticipants

  • ISKCON Ahmedabad Ahmedabad, India · Temple 5,846
  • ISKCON Ghaziabad-Sri Sri Radha Madan Mohan Temple Ghaziabad, India · Temple 5,100
  • ISKCON PUNJABI BAGH DELHI, India · Temple 3,000
  • ISKCON Nellore Temple inside and outside, India · Temple 1,560
  • ISKCON VIRAR Mumbai, India · Temple 1,560
  • Srila prabhupada castle Werribee, Australia · Congregation 1,000
  • New Vraja-dhama (Krisna-valley) Somogyvámos, Hungary · Temple 600
  • ISKCON DHANBAD Dhanbad, India · Temple 548

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Thank you to everyone who chanted

Every figure on this page was sent in by a temple, a congregation or a devotee, and reviewed before it was published. 25,182 devotees in 6 countries chanted the Holy Name together, in the first year these reports were gathered at all.

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