Swami Vivekananda's Ancestral House

Swami Vivekananda's Ancestral House

Swami Vivekananda's Ancestral House & Cultural Centre, 3 Gour Mohan Mukherjee street, in North Kolkata, is a museum and cultural centre that acquired, renovated, newly constructed and maintained by the Ramakrishna Mission, where Narendranath Dutta (Swami Vivekananda) born and spend his childhood and pre-monastic life.
After the death of his father (Vishwanath Datta) in 1884, Vivekananda's aunt, who was living with them in that house, claimed full possession of the property. She filed a lawsuit against Vivekananda's mother (Bhuvaneswari Devi) and her family. Vivekananda won the case in the lower court, but the case was appealed to a higher court.The case continued for many years in higher courts. It concluded only a few days before Vivekananda's death in 1902. According to the final ruling in the case, Vivekananda was awarded full legal possession of his ancestral house.