International Swaminarayan Satsang Mandal


The International Swaminarayan Satsang Mandal is a religious organisation of the Hindu faith based in USA. It comes under the Shree Laxminarayan Dev Gadi of the Shree Swaminarayan Sampraday. The organisation has temples and centres in various parts of the country as well as a temple in Chicago, Illinois.
"International Swaminarayan Satsang Mandal" is a federally registered trade mark of ISSO of Chicago, Inc. in the USA. Currently, ISSM has been Associated with SS-AUSM, SS-AUSM still remains with Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Chicago. LNDYM Youth wing has been established under SS-AUSM in order to spread the Swaminarayan Sampraday.

Temples

ISSM originally had six temples under it, all of them being named Vadtal Dham after Vadtal in India, where the headquarters of the parent organisation is located. The temple in Grand Prairie is an exception, being named Gadhpur Dham after the Swaminarayan temple in Gadhada.
Since the authoring of this article, Downey, New Jersey, and Dallas have removed themselves from ISSM and now participate an independent to-be-named organization