ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

The Los Angeles Festival of Chariots event, also known as Ratha Yatra, began in 1976. The Jaganatha Ratha Yatra is the oldest street festival in the world, originating from the Indian costal town of Jagannatha Puri, India. Along with a crowd of over one million people, the chariots in Jagannatha Puri are pulled using ropes to its final destination.

Srila Prabhupada, the Founder Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) took the Ratha Yatra festival all over the world, with the festival now taking place in cities all across the globe.