It is a three-story building on the Triplicane beach that used to belong to a wealthy lawyer named Sri Biligiri Iyengar.

While at the Ice House, Swami Ramakrishnananda started an orphanage for the destitute children, which has now grown into a large institution called Ramakrishna Mission Students Home, Mylapore.

He spent almost a year in that small room, until the new Math building was built at Mylapore on a piece of land donated by a devotee.

Thanks to the able supervision of Sri A. Ramalinga Iyer, superintending engineer, the construction work progressed rapidly, and on 27 April 1917, 8 months later, the inauguration ceremony was performed by Swami Brahmananda himself.

He used to walk inside the prayer hall, often touching the black stone pillars, going into high spiritual moods on several occasions.

The shrine was located upstairs, but there was no partition between the altar of Sri Guru Maharaj and the meditation room in which the devotees sat.

This provided much-needed space both for conducting the puja and other services at the altar and for accommodating the devotees (with a seating capacity of 40) in front.

In addition to regular worship, the shrine has hosted numerous spiritual and cultural events over the past 80 years.

With a seating capacity of 300, the main hall was the place where most weekly and Jayanthi day discourses were held for several decades.

For this purpose, at the behest of Swami Brahmananda, Ramlal Chattopaddhyaya, the nephew of Sri Ramakrishna, brought the image of Mother Durga from Calcutta.

The birthday celebrations are marked with special Puja, Homa, Chanting, Bhajans, Musical programmes and Lectures.

[7] As part of the National youth day celebrations, this year All India level Short film contest has been announced.

Swami Tapasyananda translated into English a great many Sanskrit texts, including Srimad Bhagavata published in 4 volumes in the year 1980.

The Madras Math publishes 2 monthly journals: The Vedanta Kesari in English and Sri Ramakrishna Vijayam in Tamil.

Moved by the pitiable condition of a few boys who had lost all their relatives in plague epidemic, Swami Ramakrishnananda felt that something must be done for the relief and rehabilitation of this type of orphans.

Thanks to the dedicated labour of Ramu and Ramanuju, aided by a band of selfless workers and sympathetic public, the orphanage was soon able to take in more boys.

Since the educational activity has expanded enormously, the institutions have been divided into separate Ramakrishna Mission centres for facilitating efficient administration.

Under the Madras Math's direct control there are at present: The history of the Ramakrishna Order's relief services is as old as that of the Mission itself.

Besides their multifarious permanent constructive works, from their very inception, the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission have been ever ready to promptly organise ameliorative and healing services whenever the nation has been faced with sudden calamities caused by freaks of nature, follies of men, or scourges of epidemics.

[15] For the 1897 famine in Bengal, Swami Ramakrishnananda appealed for funds in the Brahmavadin and sent a substantial amount for the relief work.

In 1928 and, twenty years later, in 1948, when some huts caught fire at Mylapore, the Math organised prompt aid and relief.