Hinduism · Communities & events
The Brahmo Samaj movement begins
1828 CE
Rammohun Roy organized a theistic worship service in Calcutta that became the formal beginning of the Brahmo Samaj movement. Its participants pursued religious and social reform. Later leaders and divisions gave the movement a history extending well beyond its first assembly.
Why it matters
Organized reform connected scriptural interpretation, public debate, and new forms of association within the changing social conditions of colonial Bengal.
About the date
Opening service: 20 August 1828; the chapel was consecrated in 1830.
Kolkata
City of the movement’s inaugural service.
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