November, the buildings were probably nearing completion but the installation in the monastic shrine had not yet taken place. It has already been mentioned how the Holy Mother's heart felt very sorry that her monastic children had neither a fixed abode nor sufficient food, and how she prayed to the Master that they might be provided with both. The sight of the new monastery must, therefore, have gladdened her beyond measure. On the day of her visit, she herself swept and washed a room in the Math and performed the worship, installing her own picture of the Master. Referring to the site of the Belur Math, the Mother said on the occasion of one of her early visits to the place: 'Of a truth I always saw as though the Master lived on the land on the other side of the Ganga (that is, opposite to Dakshineswar) - in a cottage just where the present monastery and plantain trees are.'
The new buildings of the Math were completed by December 1898. On the 9th December Swami Vivekananda carried the relics of the Master on his head to the new Math at Belur, where he installed them and performed worship and Homa for solemnizing the occasion. The new monastery came to be occupied by the monks early next year, and in the October of 1901 Swami Vivekananda had the Durga Puja celebrated on a grand scale at the new Math. The occasion was memorable in the annals of the Math, both because it was the first worship of that type to be done there, and because the Holy Mother was present on all the five days of worship, which was done in her name.