Krishna valley
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Krishna valley (Hungarian: Krisna-völgy), also known within the community as New Vraja-dhama, is an ISKCON ecovillage, Hindu religious community and organic farm in Somogyvámos, Somogy County, Hungary.[1] In a 2021 ethnographic study, Judit Farkas described it as one of the most significant ecovillages in Hungary.[1] The community was established in 1993.[1]
Krishna devotees moved to Somogyvámos in the early 1990s. In 1993 they bought 120 hectares of land at auction and began to develop the settlement; the groundbreaking ceremony was held in February 1994.[1] The temple was consecrated on 5 September 1996.[1]
Krishna Valley belongs administratively to the village of Somogyvámos.[1] Farkas wrote that at the time of her study the site covered 266 hectares and had about 130 residents, while additional Krishna devotees lived in Somogyvámos and nearby Somogyvár.[1] By the 2020s, tourism sources described the settlement as occupying nearly 300 hectares.[2]