India Community Center

About

Over sixty years ago, India’s Founding Fathers asked all Indians to respect the national symbols of India, to cherish its heritage and preserve its composite culture (Constitution Part IV-A). To honor the importance of those ideals, a small group of Indian Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area (all successful entrepreneurs) decided to create a broad-based, inclusive Community Center. It’s mission would be to preserve the culture, values and heritage of India for future generations based on the vision and ideals of the Founding Fathers of India.

The India Community Center was conceived as a place where every generation of the Indian Diaspora could find comfort in various facets of their culture, preserve and practice unique traditions and celebrate festivals and social milestones in a welcoming environment. It was also designed to be a center where people of other cultures can explore and experience Indian traditions and values.

In addition to cherishing heritage, the ICC founders also decided that promoting brotherhood and fraternity in the spirit of the constitution would be even more important in a distant land. So uniting the diverse community also becomes one of ICC’s goals. And finally, incorporating community service as an essential pillar of this center was considered vital to living up to traditional Indian values. Thus came into being our mission of Unite. Serve. Celebrate.

Programs and Services

ICC has a significant focus on Community service such as free Legal, Medical, and Career clinics, and extensive Senior programs. ICC has also launched a program for Teens to organize and run community service projects. At the same time ICC also offers a large number of programs for the community, including Bollywood Dance, Yoga, Fitness, Table Tennis, Language classes, GMAT, Karaoke, Music, Parent & Me, Kids’ Summer Camps, Carrom, and much, much more.

The ICC facility in Milpitas has multiple places for people to relax and meet others, enjoy a meal in the Café, browse through Indian papers and magazines, play billiards, cards, chess or carrom and enjoy the feeling of shared community. It also offers a modern, full-scale Fitness Center featuring over 60 Cardio and Weight machines, Personal Trainers and 35+ fitness classes each week, including Tai-Chi, Bollywood Aerobics, Yoga, Spinning, and more. In addition, our facilities include a state-of-the-art Banquet Center and Auditorium which includes the latest multimedia equipment. The Malavalli auditorium has become the preferred venue for community concerts, fundraisers, weddings, corporate meetings and conferences. It is also the place visiting Indian dignitaries and leaders come to meet the Indian community in the Bay Area. The center is open 7 days a week.

Programs