Sri Shankara Mattham at Matunga in Mumbai propagates Vedic learning and completes 75 years in 2014. Sri Shankara Mutt is located on the Telang Road in Matunga East. Sri Shankara Mattham, which is also a temple dedicated to Adi Shankaracharya, was established by Subramania Sastrigal in 1939 in his one bed room apartment. It is said that Subramania Sastrigal constantly had a dream of Adi Shankaracharya urging him to build a center dedicated to the study of Upanishads and Shastras. The present temple was consecrated in May 1978. Sri Shankara Mattham runs a Vedic learning center at Pandarpur. The vedic learning center was established in 1994. Each year 60 students graduate from the center after a 7 year course. The Matunga Sri Shankara Mattham also conducts Vedic lessons for free of cost for people from all walks of life. DNA reports The Mattham also gives a monthly pension of Rs5,000 each to 31 Vedic Pundits and Agnihotris who are too old to earn a livelihood t