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“A temple website should feel like the temple. Not like a WordPress theme.”
ISKCON Kopargaon
Design brief · 2026
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Client · ISKCON Kopargaon (Shirdi) Temple Digital Sanctuary · Kopargaon (Shirdi) · 2026
A sanctuary that reads as reverent, not marketed.
Build a digital home for a temple, not a marketing microsite. Devotees arrive with a specific need — darshan timings, event calendar, seva registration, a way to donate. The site should serve them in one breath, and hold the temple’s reverence in every screen.
Audience
Pilgrims · devotees · students
Three groups with different intents: visit, participate, contribute
Programs surfaced
Janmashtami · Rath Yatra
Annadaan · Gaushala · Gita Life · daily aarti
Region
Kopargaon (Shirdi)
Extension centre of ISKCON Juhu · Ahmednagar, Maharashtra
Focus
Ease of participation
Removing every extra tap between intent and contribution
Scope
What we were hired to build.
iskconkopargaon.org is the official website for ISKCON Kopargaon — an extension centre of ISKCON Juhu, located moments from Shirdi in Maharashtra. We designed and built the digital presence for the temple, its programs and its donation flows.
How we planned
Visit questions first, then participation, then contribution.
The audience is devotees, pilgrims and college students — three groups with different intents (visit, participate, contribute). We planned an IA that answered visit questions first (aarti times, darshan hours, how to reach), then invited deeper participation (Gita Life, Annadaan, Gaushala programs), then made contribution effortless.
How we delivered
A calm, devotional visual system.
A calm, devotional visual system with clear temple-timings surfaced above the fold; a festival and event calendar covering Janmashtami, Rath Yatra and daily programs; program pages for Annadaan, Gaushala and youth outreach; and streamlined donation call-to-actions with UPI and card support.
What we learnt
Ease of participation is the metric.
Non-profit and devotional sites live or die by ease of participation. Removing every extra tap between intent and contribution mattered more than any aesthetic decision.
A temple website should feel like the temple. Not like a WordPress theme.
How the client improved
A stable digital front door for Shirdi pilgrim traffic.
The temple now has a stable digital front door for the pilgrim traffic passing through Shirdi and the local devotee base — with online participation in programs and donations meaningfully easier than before.
Stack · in receipts
The engagement, in one page.
Client
ISKCON Kopargaon
Non-profit · devotional · Vaishnav
Palette
Sanctum Black + Devotional Gold
Vaishnav gold on a reverent dark surface
Payments
UPI + Card
Streamlined donation call-to-actions
Design principle
Feels like the temple
Not like a WordPress theme
Sanctum Black + Devotional (Vaishnav) Gold. Programs referenced verbatim: Janmashtami, Rath Yatra, Annadaan, Gaushala, Gita Life. Mobile-first, pilgrim-side. Streamlined donation with UPI and card support.
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