ISSO OF CHICAGO MEMBER OF ISSM

Mark description

The mark consists of a circular design divided into three sections, with a partial oval shape separating two of the sections from each other. There is a dark circular shape inside the partial oval shape. Each of the three subsections of the mark features a picture of a temple, and two of the three subsections also include portraits of the first two chiefs of the two dioceses of the Swaminarayan Sect, each partially enclosed within a circular shape. There is writing beneath each temple and below each of the portraits that identifies each of the chiefs by name, and each of the temples by name. The names of the chiefs are written in Gujarati as "Acharya Shri Raghuvirji Maharaj" and "Acharya Shri Ayodhyaprasadji Maharaj", respectively. The temples of the top two subsections represent the headquarters of the southern and northern dioceses in India, respectively. Beneath them, it states in Gujarati "Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Vadtal" and "Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Ahmedabad", respectively. The temple in the bottom subsection depicts the temple in Illinois and states its name and address beneath it: the name and address are written in Gujarati as "Shree Swaminarayan Temple, 397 Northgate Pkwy, Wheeling, IL 60090". There is also writing within the circular border that surrounds the mark. Specifically, the circular border around the foregoing reads "ISSO of Chicago" which is the name of the non-profit organization, International Swaminarayan Satsang Organization (I.S.S.O.) of Chicago, and "Member of ISSM" which is the national network of temples that comes under the organization International Swaminarayan Satsang Mandal, abbreviated as ISSM. The additional text on the top of the circular border is written in Sanskrit as "Shree Swaminarayan Vijaytetram". The text in the bottom portion of the circular border is written in Sanskrit as "Shree Krishna tvam gatimama".