Foundation day of Art Gallery ( Kala Deergha ) was celebrated at Gangotri and Dehradun with due respects towards Swami tapovan Maharaj and Sundaranand Maharaj. Many devotees from New Zealand and France participated in the function on 13 September 2025 . Pooja of Swami Sundaranand Pratima at Samadhi sthal and a havan and Arati in Tapovan kuti were completed in the morning hours.

From 1130 onwards, Bhandara was done in which all the sadhu of Gangotri and Panda Samaj of Gangotri and civil staff of administration took part due Dakshina was offered to all the Sadhus s and Pandits of Gangotri Temple before they left after Bhandara . From Dehradun Dr Ashok Luthra , Shri SK Sharma Dr Mulayam Aswal, Mr Digvijay Rawat and Mr Satyavan and Mrs Savitri from New Zealand, Mr. Jack and Mr. Christine from Paris, France participated in all the activities in the evening, Aarti was done in the room of Swami Tapan Maharaj and Prasad distributed

Although the climatic conditions were bad throughout the way to Gangotri and at Gangotri, but the function was done with lot of emotions and ended at happy note