One among all the beautiful creations of Our SaiBaba is the ‘SAI BABA PRASADALAY’.
🍉Sai always emphasizes on feeding the hungry.
🍉It has been stated in Sai Satcharita, that Baba required very little food for Himself and what little He wanted, was obtained by begging from a few houses.
🍉Whenever Sai made up His mind to distribute food to all, Sai made all preparations from beginning to end, on His own. In the open courtyard of the Masjid, Sai used to cook food in two Handis (cooking vessels). (now kept in the Museum).
🍓In the earlier days, Shri Sai Baba Sansthan Trust started Shri Sai Prasadalay in a building opposite to the Temple Complex
🍓Later, on 27th November 2007, Shri Sai Baba Sansthan Trust built and inaugurated one of Asia's biggest Prasadalay, (Dining Hall). It is 700 meters from Shri Sai Baba Samadhi Mandir. It has a seating capacity of 5,500, making it possible to feed more than 100,000 devotees daily.
🌽Sai's Prasadalay is spread across 4 roof-tops with 73 solar dishes, making it the largest solar-powered kitchen in India.
🌽Fourteen domes made of clear tiles have been constructed to give ample natural light to the hall, so that power cuts do not disturb the activities in the Prasadalay during daytime.
🍑Everyday morning between 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. breakfast is distributed which consists of 5 Puris and cereal vegetable (like beans, moong, masoor, grams, peas, burfi, etc.) It is reasonably charged at Rs.4.
🍑Shri Sai Baba Sansthan provides very hygienic Prasad Bhojan (food) in the ground floor of Sai Prasadalay at subsidized rates of Rs.10 for adults and Rs.5/- for Children.
🍑Special Sai Prasad Bhojan at Rs.40/- for Adults and Rs.20/- for Children is being served in the two big halls constructed on the first floor for those devotees who would like to have Prasad Bhojan leisurely. The devotees can have unlimited prasad bhojan here.
🍑Apart from Sai Prasadalay, the food prepared here is being made available at other places in Shirdi, like Sai Bhakta-niwas, Sai Ashram Phase 1 and Phase 2 and Sainath Hospital.
🍑Monthly pass is also issued by Sai Baba Sansthan, to the devotees to avail the bhojan.
🍅The Prasadalay serves simple Maharashtra food comprising dal, rice, chapatti, two vegetables and barfi (sweet).
🍅The Prasadalaya is open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. The food is first offered to Sai Baba and then served to the devotees.
🍅Shri Sai Baba Sansthan provides to and fro bus service to the devotees from Temple Complex and the Sansthan Residential buildings to Shri Sai Prasadalay from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
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73 Solar panels of 16 sq ft each are installed which provide steam for all the cooking in the Sai Prasadalaya.
LPG Gas project is instructed with the capacity of 20 tone Thermal Fluid Heating System, which is used for making the Prasad ladoo’s, due to which 30% gas is saved.
For the arrangement of pure drinking water to devotees R.O. Plant having capacity of 2500 liter/hour is implemented.
For dishwashing two imported dishwashing machines are used.
For cutting of vegetables two imported machines are used.
To wash the rice, vegetables, legume’s three imported machines are used.
For grinding flour online mill unit is sated up.
For cooking rice steam cooker is used.
The readymade material of flour, spices, turmeric, coriander powder etc are not used. They are made through pulverizing or grinding machines using raw materials.
The cold storage facility is available for vegetables & dry foods.
(Information collected from the web).
