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Hindu temples and gurdwaras in Italy

Most Indians in Italy are Punjabi Sikhs, so most places of worship are gurdwaras: about sixty in all, the best documented being the Gurdwara Singh Sabha in Novellara (Via Bandini 7), the new gurdwara in Flero near Brescia, the Shri Kalgidhar Sahib at Pessina Cremonese, and the gurdwaras of the Agro Pontino around Latina. Hindu temples are fewer and smaller: the Om Hindu Mandir in Rome, the Salasar Balaji Mandir in Padua, the Maha Shiv Shakti Mandir in Brescia and ISKCON in Bologna and Albettone, with the Unione Induista Italiana’s seat at the Gitananda Ashram in Altare. Italy’s big cities have few of either; the temples follow the farms and dairies of the Po plain and the Pontine plain.

Namaste Community deskChecked October 31, 202635 places open

Rome

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Rome province has more Indian citizens than any other in Italy (18,228 on 1 January 2025; 11,860 in the city), but its places of worship are small and mostly on the outskirts. The Centro Astalli’s interfaith visits are the easiest way in.

  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Sri Guru Hargobind Sahib

    Address
    Via Romano Guerra 16, 00166 Rome (Massimina) · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    Run by the Sri Guru Hargobind Sewa Society and active as an association since 2008; Rome’s Vaisakhi nagar kirtan leaves the temple for the Esquilino. The Centro Astalli, which brings school classes here, places it in Casal Lumbroso; the street is the one the society gave for its new building in 2009, so confirm with the Centro Astalli before you travel. A gurdwara of the same name is listed at Leno, near Brescia.

  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Guru Nanak Darbar

    Address
    Via di Valle Bagnata 20, Rome · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    Listed by the World Gurudwaras directory and, as Shri Guru Nanak Darvar, among Rome’s gurdwaras on Wikipedia. We found no site or news report of its own, so check before you travel.

  • HinduKrishna (Vaishnava)

    Om Hindu Mandir (Om International Culture Association)

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

    A Krishna temple in Tor Pignattara with an altar for daily offerings to Krishna and his avatars, used by the Centro Astalli for school visits; two Hindu temples and a Buddhist one stand within a few streets of each other in this quarter. The sources we opened give no street address or hours — ask the Centro Astalli.

Brescia

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Brescia province has 14,746 Indian citizens (ISTAT, 1 January 2025). The press names Flero and Castenedolo as the community’s two main gathering points, and the city’s Vaisakhi procession drew almost 40,000 people in 2025.

  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Singh Sabha Flero

    Address
    Via Pablo Neruda 48–50, 25020 Flero · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    The new gurdwara building was inaugurated on 27 October 2024, with officials of the Indian Consulate General in Milan present. The temple organises Brescia’s Vaisakhi procession with the city’s congregations — from the Pescheto park in Via Corsica on Saturday 12 April 2025, almost 40,000 people by Giornale di Brescia’s count — and the Sikh New Year nagar kirtan of March 2026.

  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Sachkhand Isher Darbar

    Address
    Via Industriale 16, Brescia · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    A gurdwara in the city, in an industrial street. Listed by the World Gurudwaras directory; we found no site or report of its own, so check before you travel.

  • Sikh

    Gurdwara at Castenedolo

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

    Named with Flero in March 2026 reporting as a centre of the Brescia community’s religious and social life, nine kilometres south-east of the city. The sources we opened give neither its full name nor a street — ask at Flero.

  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Sri Guru Hargobind Sahib

    Address
    Via Vasco de Gama 7, Leno · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    A farm-country gurdwara in the Bassa Bresciana, where Leno has 540 Indian citizens. Listed by Wikipedia and the World Gurudwaras directory; no site or report of its own found. Not the gurdwara of the same name in Rome.

  • Hindu

    Maha Shiv Shakti Mandir

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

    The Brescia Hindu community’s temple: the Consul General of India in Milan visited on 15 February 2026 to join its Mahashivratri celebration, and Wikipedia dates the temple to 2016. The sources we opened give no street address or hours.

Latina and the Agro Pontino

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Latina province has 13,487 Indian citizens, mostly in the farm towns rather than the city: Terracina 2,118, Fondi 2,075, Sabaudia 1,623, Pontinia 1,513, Latina 1,508 and Aprilia 1,490. A local report of May 2026 counts 33 gurdwaras in the area, without a source. The streets below, except Aprilia’s, are as the World Gurudwaras directory lists them.

  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Singh Sabha Aprilia

    Address
    Via del Commercio, Aprilia (industrial zone) · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    The start of Aprilia’s Vaisakhi nagar kirtan on Sunday 24 May 2026: from Via del Commercio through the centre to the Falcone e Borsellino park, with traffic limits on the route (Il Caffè, 23 May 2026).

  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Singh Sabha Sabaudia

    Address
    Via Caporale Armando Tortini, Sabaudia · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    The Sabaudia gurdwara Internazionale’s 2015 reportage called the community’s reference point, and one of the “main Sikh temples” of Sabaudia, San Vito and Fondi named by Latina24ore for Guru Nanak’s birthday that year. The street is from a 2015 photo caption — confirm it.

  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Singh Sabha Pontinia

    Address
    Strada del Tavolato 1778, Pontinia · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    In farm country outside the town, where 1,513 Indian citizens live. Listed by the World Gurudwaras directory; we found no site or report of its own, so check before you travel.

  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Singh Sabha Borgo Hermada

    Address
    Strada Circondariale, Borgo Hermada, Terracina · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    Terracina has the most Indian citizens of any town in the province (2,118), spread over its villages. Listed by the World Gurudwaras directory; no site or report of its own found.

  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Singh Sabha San Vito

    Address
    Via Mediana Vecchia, Terracina (San Vito) · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    One of the three main temples (with Sabaudia and Fondi) that Latina24ore named for the Guru Nanak celebration of December 2015. Listed by the World Gurudwaras directory.

  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Singh Sabha Fondi

    Address
    Via Capocroce, Fondi · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    Fondi has 2,075 Indian citizens. Listed by Wikipedia and the World Gurudwaras directory, and named by Latina24ore in 2015 as a main temple of the area.

  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Singh Sabha Cisterna di Latina

    Address
    Via dei Rododendri, Cisterna di Latina · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    The northern end of the Pontine plain. Listed by Wikipedia and the World Gurudwaras directory; no site or report of its own found.

Bergamo and the Bassa Bergamasca

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Bergamo province has 10,762 Indian citizens. Il Giorno (April 2026) puts the Sikh community of the Bergamo area at more than 10,000.

  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Singh Sabha Cortenuova (Santa Maria del Sasso)

    Address
    Via San Giorgio 17, Cortenuova · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    Il Giorno (April 2026) calls the Sikh temple at Santa Maria del Sasso, a hamlet of Cortenuova, the largest in Europe — one of three Italian gurdwaras with such a claim. The Nihang Singhs of Italy hold the three-day Hola Mohalla in Cortenuova in the second week of March, with a nagar kirtan, gatka and langar stalls (the 2026 edition was reported on 16 March).

  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Mata Sahib Kaur Ji

    Address
    Via Campo Rampino 382, Covo · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    In the Bassa Bergamasca; Il Giorno of 19 April 2026 places a Sikh temple on Via Campo Rampino, the street the World Gurudwaras directory gives for this gurdwara, and Wikipedia lists a gurdwara at Covo.

  • SikhRavidassia

    Shri Guru Ravidass Dham

    Address
    Via San Felice 9, Gorlago · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    A Ravidassia place of worship, listed by Wikipedia and the World Gurudwaras directory; no site or report of its own found.

  • HinduISKCON

    Villaggio Hare Krishna (Radha Ramana)

    Address
    Villaggio Hare Krishna, on the road to Terno d’Isola, 24040 Medolago (Bergamo) · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    ISKCON’s community near Milan, about 40 km away: a temple with Sri Sri Radha Ramana, Gaura Nitai and Jagannatha Baladev Subhadra, an ashram, guest rooms and devotees’ houses, and a Sunday programme that drew hundreds in 2018. The ISKCON directory lists it under Bergamo; other sources place it at Chignolo d’Isola, next door. Times are not published where we could read them.

    Website

Cremona and Mantua

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Cremona province has 6,889 Indian citizens and Mantua province 9,573 (Suzzara and Viadana 888 each). The Centro Astalli’s booklet calls the Pessina Cremonese temple the centre of a very large community that has been rooted in Cremona province for about two decades.

  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Shri Kalgidhar Sahib

    Address
    Piazza Baba Banda Singh Bahadur 6, 26030 Pessina Cremonese · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    Inaugurated on 21 August 2011 before more than 3,000 people, with room for about 600 at a time and a cost of about €2 million reported then; the golden domes were still to be added. The Centro Astalli calls it the second-largest Sikh temple in Europe after London’s central gurdwara; Italian Wikipedia calls it the largest in continental Europe.

  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Sahib Suzzara

    Address
    Strada Roncobonoldo 47, Suzzara · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    Suzzara’s Vaisakhi nagar kirtan on 7 May 2023 drew about 5,000 people, mainly from the Basso Mantovano and the neighbouring Emilian provinces (MantovaUno). The World Gurudwaras directory lists a gurdwara at this address; we found no site of its own.

Reggio Emilia, Parma and Bologna

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The Emilian towns have a long-standing Sikh community (Reggio Emilia province: 5,160 Indian citizens, Novellara 448; Parma province: 4,594).

  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Singh Sabha Novellara

    Address
    Via Lorenzo Bandini 7, 42017 Novellara · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    The Centro Astalli calls it one of the oldest temples in Italy, and Il Resto del Carlino (February 2024) one of the largest Sikh temples in Europe. The Vaisakhi procession left the temple at 14:00 on Saturday 12 April 2025 and went round the town centre; in 2022 it was on Saturday 23 April, and in November 2022 about 5,000 people walked from the temple to the Rocca.

  • Hindu

    Jai Vaishno Mata Mandir

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

    A Hindu temple whose annual celebration and shobhayatra on 18 May 2024 the Consulate General of India in Milan attended; Wikipedia dates a Novellara Hindu temple to 2017. The sources we opened give no street address or hours.

  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Sahib Correggio

    Address
    Via Monsignor Giuseppe Bonacini 5, Correggio · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    In Reggio Emilia province, a few kilometres from Novellara. Listed by Wikipedia and the World Gurudwaras directory; no site or report of its own found.

  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Singh Sabha Parma

    Address
    Via Mario Fantelli 17, Parma · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    Listed by Wikipedia and the World Gurudwaras directory, which also lists a second Parma congregation, Darbar Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji, at Strada del Pozzetto 6. No site or report of either found, so check before you travel.

  • HinduISKCON

    Centro Vaikuntha — ISKCON Bologna

    Address
    Via Gaspare Nadi 6, 40139 Bologna · Directions
    When
    Bhagavad-gita meditation Thursdays 19:30; Saturday lectures with mantra singing at 17:00, a talk at 18:00 and a vegetarian dinner, on the dates the centre lists

    ISKCON’s Bologna centre, in the Mazzini quarter (buses 19 and 27, stop Pontevecchio): kirtan, talks, yoga classes and courses, with a programme of lectures through November 2026. Entry to the lectures is free, with a voluntary donation.

    Website

Veneto: Verona, Vicenza and Padua

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Vicenza province has 6,276 Indian citizens and Verona province 6,240 (San Bonifacio 647).

  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Guru Nanak Mission Sewa Society

    Address
    SR 11, no. 81b, San Bonifacio (Verona) · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    A gurdwara owned by the Guru Nanak Association, in a town where Sikhs are the largest part of the non-Italian population. Its Vaisakhi procession in April 2023 drew about 3,500 people by the police’s count.

  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Sri Guru Ram Das Niwas

    Address
    Strada dei Laghi, Chiampo (Vicenza) · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    In the Chiampo valley; the Consul General of India in Milan visited and prayed here on 1 August 2026.

  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Singh Sabha Castelgomberto

    Address
    Via Cengelle 9, Castelgomberto (Vicenza) · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    Listed by Wikipedia and the World Gurudwaras directory; no site or recent report of its own found, so check before you travel.

  • HinduSalasar Balaji (Hanuman)

    Shree Salasar Balaji Mandir (Balaji Sanatani Mandir)

    Address
    Corso Tre Venezie, Arcella, Padua (house number not published) · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    The Veneto Hindu community’s temple, inaugurated on 29 July 2020 and dedicated to Hanuman as Salasar Balaji, in the tradition of Salasar in Rajasthan. The Consul General of India in Milan prayed there during the annual Vishwa Shanti Maha Yagna on 1 August 2026; its annual festival was held on 30 August 2025 and was planned for 22 August in 2026.

  • HinduISKCON

    Prabhupada Desh (ISKCON Albettone)

    Address
    Via Roma 11, 36020 Albettone (Vicenza) · Directions
    When
    Daily morning programme 05:00–08:30, with meditation on the Holy Name 06:00–07:30; Sunday feast from 17:00

    A Hare Krishna temple and community south of Vicenza. Darshan hours are not published; ring the centre to arrange a visit.

    Website

Piedmont and Liguria

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Altare is in Savona province, on the Piedmont border. Turin’s Hindu community meets through the Bharatiya Telugu Samithi and the Unione Induista Italiana’s Diwali days rather than at a temple we could confirm.

  • HinduSaiva Siddhanta and Srividya

    Matha Gitananda Ashram

    Address
    Località Pellegrino 1, 17041 Altare (Savona) · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    The religious seat of the Unione Induista Italiana, the body whose Intesa with the State became Law 246 of 2012; Wikipedia dates the ashram to 1984 and its Italian page names a temple to Sri Lalita Maha Tripurasundari within it. A monastery rather than a neighbourhood temple.

    Website

  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Singh Sabha Novara

    Address
    Via Enrico Fermi 11, Novara · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    Listed by Wikipedia and the World Gurudwaras directory; no site or recent report of its own found, so check before you travel.

Tuscany: the Valdarno

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The Valdarno is the centre of Tuscany’s Sikh community: San Giovanni Valdarno’s Vaisakhi procession on Sunday 27 April 2025 drew more than 4,000 people from Piazza Cavour, with a free langar at 15:00 (La Nazione).

  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Sangat Sabha

    Address
    Via Penna, Terranuova Bracciolini (Arezzo) · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    Listed by Wikipedia, the World Gurudwaras directory (as Arezzo, Via Penna) and a travel directory that places it in Penna, a village of Terranuova Bracciolini. No site or report of its own found, so check before you travel.

  • SikhRavidassiaClosed

    Shri Guru Ravidass Temple

    Address
    Via Amerigo Vespucci, Montevarchi (Arezzo)

    Gutted by a fire that spread from a parked car in the night of 5–6 September 2024; the furnishings and the Guru Granth Sahib were lost. La Nazione then reported that families would pray at home and that it was unclear whether the building could be restored; we found no report of a reopening.

Friuli: Pordenone

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About 2,000 Sikhs live around Pasiano and Prata, according to Il Post (2023).

  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Singh Sabha Pasiano

    Address
    Viale del Mobile 9, Cecchini di Pasiano, Pasiano di Pordenone · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    In the hamlet of Cecchini; the FAI lists it among its sites (it was part of the FAI Autumn Days in 2019). Two factions disputed the leadership of its association in summer 2023, the building was closed for about a week in August, and Il Post reported a brawl nearby in September — ask which committee runs it before you go. The World Gurudwaras directory gives the house number as 5.

Also worth knowing

Italy has about sixty gurdwaras (58 of the EU’s 140, according to the Sapienza University project on gurdwara architecture) and only a few Hindu temples, nearly all in farm and factory towns rather than the big cities: Brescia, Latina, Bergamo and Mantua provinces each have more Indian citizens than Milan. This page lists the places we could confirm in October 2026. Many smaller gurdwaras, in rented halls and warehouses, are not on it. Street names for the entries marked as directory listings come from the World Gurudwaras directory and Wikipedia and have no published hours — ask the nearest large gurdwara before a first visit.

The Unione Induista Italiana (UII), whose religious seat is the Gitananda Ashram at Altare, signed an Intesa with the State on 4 April 2007; Parliament approved it in Law 246 of 31 December 2012, and under article 25 its members may ask to observe Dipavali. Wikipedia notes that most Hindus in Italy are not affiliated with the UII, and the Intesa covers the UII and the bodies it represents, not every temple. Milan has no Hindu temple that we could confirm as open: the UII owns a building at Via Cassano d’Adda 13, which the city proposed in February 2024 for its register of religious facilities, but that was a plan, not a temple.

We could not confirm, and so left out: ISKCON Rome (a Via Sardegna 55 listing from 2016, with a website that no longer resolves), the Shri Vishnu Temple in Milan and the Shri Hari Om Mandir at Pegognaga (both only on Wikipedia’s lists), a Tamil temple to Sri Raja Rajeshwari in Reggio Emilia, and ISKCON centres listed at San Casciano in Val di Pesa (Villa Vrindavana) and Roatto, near Asti, which we could not verify. Directories also list gurdwaras at Treviso, Bolzano, Fabriano, Terni, Bari, Lecce, Reggio Calabria and Locri, on which we found nothing recent, and Italian Wikipedia says a large temple at Sannicandro di Bari was under construction in July 2026; we could not check that. We found no Jain temple.

Visiting a gurdwara: cover your head (scarves are usually provided), take your shoes off, wash your hands, sit on the floor, and do not turn your back on the Guru Granth Sahib. Men and women sit separately, though there is no fixed barrier. The langar, the community kitchen, is open to everyone and is vegetarian; the Centro Astalli says Sunday is the day the community gathers, because it is a rest day for most, not for any religious reason. In a Hindu temple, take off your shoes and dress modestly; prasad is offered at the end of the aarti.

Festivals: Vaisakhi fell on Tuesday 14 April 2026, but Italian processions are held on weekends or later — Brescia and Novellara on Saturday 12 April in 2025, San Giovanni Valdarno on 27 April 2025, and Aprilia on Sunday 24 May in 2026. Brescia’s 2026 nagar kirtan for the Sikh New Year, from Via Corsica, was on a Sunday in March; Hola Mohalla at Cortenuova is in the second week of March. We found no 2026 Vaisakhi date from Novellara, Brescia or the Pontine towns other than Aprilia, and the next Vaisakhi is in April 2027. Guru Nanak’s birthday falls on Tuesday 24 November 2026 in most calendars (one gives 25 November); Latina’s procession for it was held on 13 December in 2015, so ask your gurdwara for its day.

Diwali is Sunday 8 November 2026 and is not a public holiday in Italy. The Sikh gurdwaras usually keep Bandi Chhor Divas on the same night, each with its own programme. The Unione Induista Italiana’s free, registration-only Dipavali days remain at Pontedera (Saturday 7 November), Milan (Thursday 12 November, Teatro Bruno Munari) and Rome (Sunday 15 November, Auditorium del Massimo); Turin’s were on 25 and 29 October. Hindu temples set their own times for the Lakshmi puja, and none had published them where we could read them.

Questions people ask

Where is the biggest gurdwara in Italy?
Three towns each carry a “largest in Europe” claim and no source compares them. Pessina Cremonese (Gurdwara Shri Kalgidhar Sahib, opened 21 August 2011, room for about 600) is called the largest Sikh temple in continental Europe by Italian Wikipedia, and the second-largest in Europe after London’s central gurdwara by the Centro Astalli. Novellara’s Gurdwara Singh Sabha is called one of the largest in Europe by Il Resto del Carlino (2024) and the second largest by English Wikipedia. Il Giorno (April 2026) calls the temple at Cortenuova, near Bergamo, the largest in Europe. Treat all three as claims.
Where are the gurdwaras in Italy?
About sixty, in the farm provinces: around Brescia (Flero, Castenedolo, Leno), Cremona (Pessina Cremonese), Bergamo (Cortenuova, Covo), Mantua (Suzzara), Reggio Emilia (Novellara, Correggio) and Parma; in the Agro Pontino of Latina province (Aprilia, Sabaudia, Pontinia, Terracina, Fondi, Cisterna di Latina) and in Rome; and in Veneto (San Bonifacio, Chiampo, Castelgomberto), Novara and the Valdarno in Tuscany. Many smaller ones in rented halls are not listed anywhere we could check.
Where is the Gurdwara Singh Sabha in Novellara, and when is its Vaisakhi procession?
At Via Lorenzo Bandini 7, in Novellara (Reggio Emilia). Its Vaisakhi procession left the temple at 14:00 on Saturday 12 April 2025 and went through the town centre; in 2022 it was on Saturday 23 April. We found no published 2026 date, and the next Vaisakhi is in April 2027, so ask the temple for the day.
Is there a Hindu temple in Rome?
Yes, a small one that we could confirm: the Om Hindu Mandir (Om International Culture Association) in Tor Pignattara, a Krishna temple the Centro Astalli uses for school visits. Its street address is not published in the sources we opened. ISKCON’s Rome centre, listed at Via Sardegna 55 in an old directory, has a website that no longer resolves, so we left it out. The Unione Induista Italiana’s seat is the Gitananda Ashram at Altare, in Liguria.
Is there a Hindu temple in Milan?
We could not confirm one that is open. The Unione Induista Italiana owns a building at Via Cassano d’Adda 13 that the city proposed in February 2024 for its register of religious facilities, which was a plan rather than an opening. The nearest temples we could confirm are the Maha Shiv Shakti Mandir in Brescia and ISKCON’s Villaggio Hare Krishna near Bergamo, about 40 km from Milan.
When are Diwali and Bandi Chhor Divas in Italy in 2026?
Sunday 8 November 2026 for both, in the calendars we checked. It is not a public holiday. The Unione Induista Italiana holds free Dipavali days in Pontedera (7 November), Milan (12 November) and Rome (15 November), and Sikh gurdwaras usually mark Bandi Chhor Divas on Diwali night with their own programmes.
When is Guru Nanak’s birthday in 2026?
Tuesday 24 November 2026 in most calendars, one of which gives 25 November. Italian gurdwaras often hold the procession on another day: Latina’s for Guru Nanak’s birthday was on 13 December in 2015. Ask your gurdwara.
Can anyone visit a gurdwara in Italy, and is the langar free?
Yes. A gurdwara’s langar is open to everyone, and sitting on the floor to eat is a sign of equality. Cover your head, take off your shoes, and expect to sit on the floor. Most gurdwaras gather on Sundays; the Centro Astalli arranges school and group visits to the one in Rome.
How many gurdwaras are there in Italy?
About sixty. A Sapienza University project funded by the EU counts 58 of the EU’s 140; Wikipedia says about 60 and Italian Wikipedia “over 60” (2023). Italy has no census of religion, so every count is an estimate.

Sources

Checked on October 31, 2026. When a temple’s own page and this list disagree, the temple wins.

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