In the year 2000 the very first chapel of Swami Vishwananda was inaugrated in Quatre Bornes/Mauritius. The ceremony took place on the auspicious and uniting Christian feastday 15th of August . The local catholic priest took part in the festivities and was blessing the chapel and whole center with holy water.
The main statue behind the altar is an image of the very famous Black Madonna of Einsiedeln /Switzerland. Swami Vishwananda has been collecting some of those beautiful statues of the Divine Mother during his travellings or people donated them from all over the world. Most of the Madonnas are images of Mother Mary appearing at pilgrimage places such as Lourdes, Fatima, La Salette, Mexiko, India and many more.
During these days the chapel was filled with a wonderful rose smell. Some of the Mary statues where covered with rose oil, on others one could see tears in the eyes.