The Theosophical Society at Adyar is recognizable by the massive, widespread canopy of a four-hundred-fifty-year-old banyan tree. This campus, sprawling across two hundred sixty acres on the banks of the Adyar River, serves as the international headquarters for an organization dedicated to the study of comparative religion, philosophy, and science. Founded in New York City in eighteen seventy-five by Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott, the society moved its base to this quiet, wooded property in eighteen eighty-two.
The Theosophical Society
park garden
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