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Hindu temples and gurdwaras in Ireland

Ireland has few Hindu temples and most are in Dublin: the Ireland Vinayaka Temple in Kingswood (Dublin 24), the Vedic Hindu Cultural Centre Ireland’s temple in Walkinstown (Dublin 12; Monday to Saturday 18:00–19:00, Sunday 12:00–15:00) and ISKCON on Middle Abbey Street (daily 12:00–20:00). The Gurdwara Guru Nanak Darbar in Ballsbridge calls itself the only gurdwara in the Republic. Outside Dublin there are the Ireland Murugan Temple in Athlone, the Sri Limerick Ganapathi Temple and the Indian Community Centre’s temple in Letterkenny; Cork has no temple yet.

Namaste Community deskChecked October 23, 20269 places open

Dublin

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Four Hindu places of worship and the gurdwara, spread across the city: Kingswood and Walkinstown in the south-west, Mulhuddart in the north-west, ISKCON in the centre and the gurdwara in Ballsbridge. Plan one visit at a time.

  • Hindu

    Ireland Vinayaka Temple (IVT)

    Address
    Kingswood Community Centre, Sylvan Drive, Kingswood, Dublin 24, D24 Y098 · Directions
    When
    Monday–Thursday 08:00–10:00 and 17:30–18:30; Friday 08:00–10:00 and 18:30–19:45; Saturday 08:00–10:00 and 18:45–20:15; Sunday 09:00–11:45 and 15:00–17:30

    A Ganesha temple, with Subramanya, Shiva, Satyanarayana, Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati also worshipped. It began with a first puja on Vijayadashami in 2003, ran daily services at the Ballyroan Community Centre in Rathfarnham from August 2011 and has been in Kingswood since August 2017. Five minutes’ walk from the Kingswood stop on the Luas Red Line, or Dublin Bus 56A from Pearse Street; parking at the community centre, and a side gate when the main one is shut.

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  • Hindu

    Vedic Hindu Cultural Centre Ireland (VHCCI) temple

    Address
    2D Sunbury Industrial Estate, Ballymount Rd Lower, Ballymount, Co. Dublin, D12 W81V · Directions
    When
    Monday–Saturday 18:00–19:00 (bhajan 18:00–18:45, aarti 18:45); Sunday 12:00–15:00 (satsang 12:00–14:00, aarti 14:00, then vegetarian prasad). No booking is needed; times can change on festival days

    Opened on 22 August 2020 in an industrial unit bought in 2015, with 23 hand-chiselled marble murtis, a cultural hall, a library and room for 500 pairs of shoes; its founders call it Ireland’s first official Hindu temple. It runs Hindi and Bharatanatyam classes and organises Dublin’s large Diwali Festival of Lights.

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  • HinduISKCON

    ISKCON Dublin (Hare Krishna Temple)

    Address
    83 Middle Abbey Street, North City, Dublin 1, D01 EV91 · Directions
    When
    Daily 12:00–20:00; weekly Friday programmes (kirtan, and a Bhagavad Gita session)

    Built by its own devotees over a Govinda’s vegetarian restaurant and opened in 2009, a short walk from O’Connell Street. It also runs a Kids Krishna Club online on Tuesdays, and a €5 million new temple is at the design stage after the site was secured in June 2025.

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  • HinduRamakrishna Order

    Ramakrishna Vedanta Centre (Éire Vedanta Society)

    Address
    Nivedita House, 17 Dromheath Gardens, Mulhuddart, Dublin 15, D15 E762 · Directions
    When
    Every day except Wednesday, 08:00–13:00 and 15:00–20:00

    The first branch centre of the Ramakrishna Order in Ireland, affiliated to Belur Math in June 2018 and led by a resident swami. An ashrama with a shrine rather than a mandir: arati, weekly lectures, Sunday bhajans, meditation and Kali Puja are among its programmes. Opposite Ladyswell National School; Dublin Bus 38, 38A or 38B to Castlecurragh, The Heath.

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  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Guru Nanak Darbar

    Address
    78 Serpentine Avenue, Sandymount, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, D04 NP44 · Directions
    When
    Daily: Prakash, Nitnem and Hukamnama 05:00–06:15, and Rehraas Sahib in the evening (19:00–19:45 or 18:45–19:30 — the schedule gives a summer and a winter time). Tuesday 19:00–21:30 with kirtan and langar; Sunday 11:00–14:30 with Sukhmani Sahib path, kirtan and langar

    In the former Oscar theatre, bought in December 1986 after Sikh chefs who came to Ireland in 1972 began weekly prayers in their restaurants in 1984; it describes itself as the only gurdwara in the Republic. Langar is free and vegetarian, and everyone is welcome who follows the basic protocol — cover your head and take your shoes off. Buses 4, 7 or 7A from O’Connell Bridge to Merrion Road, then a seven-minute walk.

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Limerick

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Limerick’s Hindu community meets in a football club and hired halls while it works towards a permanent temple.

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    Sri Limerick Ganapathi Temple

    Address
    Aisling Annacotty Football Club, Annacotty, Co. Limerick, V94 DH9V · Directions
    When
    Every Saturday 17:00–20:00; festivals at Ahane GAA Club, Mackey Park, Lisnagry, “as per festival schedule”

    A Ganesha temple, with Nataraja among its deities, run by Limerick Shri Ganapathi CLG, a registered charity. The weekly pooja is held in the football club’s premises; larger festivals, including its Deepavali pooja and community annadhanam (shared meal), move to Ahane GAA Club.

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    Hindu Association of Ireland (Limerick temple project)

    Address
    Limerick — the venue moves; see below
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    A community group founded in 2018, working towards a permanent Hindu temple in Limerick. It has no building yet: its pujas, festivals, yoga and cultural events are held across Ahane, Pallaskenry and Mungret, and the events page of its site gives the venue and time of each.

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Athlone and the Midlands

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  • HinduMurugan (Tamil)

    Ireland Murugan Temple

    Address
    Unit 1 Nestor’s Business Complex, Monksland, Athlone, Co. Roscommon, N37 VX52 · Directions
    When
    Saturdays 17:00–19:00, and 15:00–18:30 on the last Saturday of each month (subject to change for special occasions)

    Consecrated (Maha Kumbabishekam) on 9 June 2022 as the first Murugan temple in Ireland and, by its own account, the first Hindu temple outside the Dublin region. The Vel is the presiding deity, with Lord Ganapathy, and it is a registered charity open to all. Monksland is Athlone’s western suburb, in Co. Roscommon.

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Letterkenny, Donegal

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  • Hindu

    Indian Community Centre Letterkenny (temple)

    Address
    Letterkenny — the venue moves; see below
    When
    The temple opens by volunteer rota — the slots are on the Temple Rota page of the centre’s site

    The centre began in January 2008 and now has a temple with deities brought from India and a multi-purpose hall; it also organises the Donegal Mela. Its site shows a map pin east of the town centre but no street address, so ask through the site before a first visit.

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Also worth knowing

None of these was built as a temple: the Ireland Vinayaka Temple and the Limerick temple use a community centre and a football club, the Vedic Hindu Cultural Centre’s temple is in an industrial unit, and the Athlone temple is in a business complex. Two projects aim to change that — ISKCON Dublin’s new temple (site secured in June 2025, €5 million target) and Apurva Charity’s Hindu temple and community space on 2.78 acres of Fingal council land in Tyrrelstown, Dublin 15, whose lease councillors approved in March 2025 — but neither is a building yet.

Cork has no Hindu temple. The city has the second-largest Indian community in Ireland (4,321 Indian nationals at the 2022 census), and at a Diwali evening in City Hall on 19 November 2023 its community launched a plan for a cultural centre with a temple, a hall and short-stay apartments; the council confirmed only preliminary talks, no site was named and planning permission is still needed. Until then Cork families keep puja at home and in hired halls, or travel to Limerick or Dublin. We could not confirm a gurdwara in Cork either.

We found no temple, mandir or gurdwara in Galway, Waterford, Kilkenny, Dundalk or Drogheda on 23 October 2026. Wikipedia’s lists name a Singh Sabha gurdwara in Cork, a Dashmesh Darbar gurdwara in Athlone and a BAPS temple at Enfield, Co. Meath, but no site or directory we could read confirmed an address or hours for any of them, so none is listed. BAPS’s own page lists a Dublin centre, not a mandir; the nearest BAPS mandir is Neasden in London.

Jain Samaj Ireland, which includes all Jain traditions, hopes to build a temple, but we found none in Ireland to list, nor a Shirdi Sai or Swaminarayan mandir. Belfast and Derry have their own temples and a gurdwara; they are in the UK, not here.

Take your shoes off at the door and dress modestly; cover your head at the gurdwara. The gurdwara’s langar is free and vegetarian, after the Sunday diwan and on Tuesday evening, and the Vedic Hindu Cultural Centre serves a vegetarian prasad after its Sunday aarti. The Ireland Vinayaka Temple’s sessions are short, so check the day’s times on its site, and its wooden floor can be slippery in socks.

Diwali is Sunday 8 November 2026 and is not a public holiday. The Ireland Vinayaka Temple lists Deepavali that day and invites families for darshan, with no separate hours; the Vedic Hindu Cultural Centre asks you to check its Facebook page for festival times. Its Diwali Festival of Lights is a ticketed event on Saturday 14 November, 14:00–21:00, at the National Basketball Arena, Tymon Lane, Dublin 24. In Limerick the Hindu Association of Ireland has listed its Diwali at Ahane Hall for the same Saturday (check its events page), and the Ganapathi temple’s Deepavali pooja at Ahane GAA Club had no date posted on 23 October.

Questions people ask

Where are the Hindu temples in Ireland?
Mostly in Dublin: the Ireland Vinayaka Temple in Kingswood, the Vedic Hindu Cultural Centre Ireland’s temple in Walkinstown, ISKCON on Middle Abbey Street and the Ramakrishna Vedanta Centre in Mulhuddart. Outside Dublin there are the Ireland Murugan Temple in Athlone, the Sri Limerick Ganapathi Temple in Annacotty and the Indian Community Centre’s temple in Letterkenny.
Is there a Hindu temple in Dublin, and when is it open?
Yes. The Vedic Hindu Cultural Centre Ireland’s temple at 2D Sunbury Industrial Estate, Ballymount (Dublin 12) is open Monday to Saturday 18:00–19:00 and Sunday 12:00–15:00 with no booking. The Ireland Vinayaka Temple in Kingswood (Dublin 24) has morning and evening sessions daily, ISKCON at 83 Middle Abbey Street is open 12:00–20:00 every day, and the Ramakrishna Vedanta Centre in Mulhuddart is open every day except Wednesday.
Where is the gurdwara in Ireland, and when is langar served?
Gurdwara Guru Nanak Darbar, 78 Serpentine Avenue, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, which describes itself as the only gurdwara in the Republic. Free vegetarian langar follows the Sunday diwan (11:00–14:30) and the Tuesday evening kirtan (19:00–21:30). Cover your head and take your shoes off.
Is there a Hindu temple in Cork?
No. Cork has no temple and no gurdwara that we could confirm; the community held a Diwali evening at City Hall in November 2023 to launch a plan for a cultural centre with a temple, but it was at a preliminary stage. The nearest temples are the Sri Limerick Ganapathi Temple on Saturdays and the Dublin temples.
Are there Hindu temples outside Dublin?
Yes, three. The Ireland Murugan Temple at Monksland, Athlone opens on Saturdays; the Sri Limerick Ganapathi Temple meets on Saturdays 17:00–20:00 at Aisling Annacotty Football Club; and the Indian Community Centre in Letterkenny has a temple that opens by rota. We found none in Galway, Waterford, Kilkenny, Dundalk or Drogheda.
Is there an ISKCON temple in Ireland?
ISKCON Dublin, at 83 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1, is open every day from 12:00 to 20:00, with Friday kirtan and a Bhagavad Gita session; its €5 million new temple is at the design stage.
When is Diwali 2026 in Ireland and which temples are open?
Sunday 8 November 2026, not a public holiday. The Ireland Vinayaka Temple lists Deepavali that day and invites families for darshan; the Vedic Hindu Cultural Centre Ireland’s Diwali Festival of Lights is on Saturday 14 November, 14:00–21:00, at the National Basketball Arena in Tymon, Dublin 24.
Is there a BAPS Swaminarayan or Jain temple in Ireland?
Not that we could confirm. BAPS lists a satsang centre in Dublin rather than a mandir, and Jain Samaj Ireland hopes to build a temple but has none yet. The nearest BAPS mandir is at Neasden in London.
How do I find a pandit in Ireland?
Ask at the Ireland Vinayaka Temple, which has had a full-time resident priest since 2011, or at the Vedic Hindu Cultural Centre Ireland, whose site says it looks after the community’s needs for religious rituals.

Sources

Checked on October 23, 2026. When a temple’s own page and this list disagree, the temple wins.

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