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Hindu temples and gurdwaras in Portugal

Portugal’s main Hindu temple is the Templo Radha Krishna of the Comunidade Hindu de Portugal on Alameda Mahatma Gandhi in Lumiar, Lisbon, with daily programmes from 08:00 to 10:30 and from 18:00 to 20:30. Lisbon also has the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir on Avenida Almirante Gago Coutinho and an ISKCON centre, and the Shiv Mandir is in Santo António dos Cavaleiros, Loures. The Sikh temple for the Lisbon area is the gurdwara on Rua José Duarte Lexim in Odivelas; gurdwaras are also listed in Porto and Albufeira, and ISKCON has a centre in Porto.

Namaste Community deskChecked October 31, 20268 places open

Lisbon

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Most of Portugal’s Hindu worship is in the Lisbon area, kept by families who came from Mozambique after 1975.

  • Hindu

    Templo Radha Krishna (Comunidade Hindu de Portugal)

    Address
    Alameda Mahatma Gandhi, 1600-500 Lisboa (Lumiar) · Directions
    When
    Daily 08:00–10:30 (aarti 08:30–09:00) and 18:00–20:30 (aarti 19:30–20:00); special dates are on the community’s agenda page

    The temple of the Comunidade Hindu de Portugal, inaugurated in November 1998 by President Jorge Sampaio; the community calls it open to everyone. Groups, schools and individuals visit on a guided tour booked in advance with the secretariat (Monday to Friday, 09:00–18:00), and the rituals are streamed live online. The community’s Cantina Indiana, serving vegetarian Gujarati food, is open every day except Monday.

    Website

  • HinduBAPS

    BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir

    Address
    Avenida Almirante Gago Coutinho 120, 1700-033 Lisbon · Directions
    When
    Daily 08:30–11:15 and 16:00–20:00, bank holidays included; arti at 08:30 and 19:30; Saturday 19:30–20:30 children’s and youth sabhas

    The Lisbon mandir of the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, opened in 2014 after a groundbreaking in 2011. Its news page records Janmashtami, Swaminarayan Jayanti and Rama Navami, and a Diwali and Hindu New Year (Annakut) programme on Saturday 25 October 2025, the Saturday after Diwali — ask for the 2026 date.

    Website

  • HinduISKCON

    ISKCON Lisboa (Hare Krishna)

    Address
    Rua Casimiro Freire 4A, 1900-144 Lisboa · Directions
    When
    Its own timetable: daily 06:30 arati and Tulasi puja, 07:00 japa, 08:30 Bhagavatam class; Friday 17:00 bhajans and Gita study; Sunday feast from 16:00 (class 16:30, kirtan and arati 17:15, fellowship from 18:00)

    Lisbon’s Hare Krishna centre, in rented premises: its landlord declined to renew the lease in 2024 and the community is raising money for a permanent temple. ISKCON’s directory still shows the older address, Rua Dona Estefânia 91, but the centre’s 2026 events name Rua Casimiro Freire, so confirm before you travel. It runs the city’s Ratha Yatra with the Câmara Municipal de Lisboa and a Food for Life meal programme.

    Website

North of Lisbon: Santo António dos Cavaleiros and Odivelas

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The Shiva temple of the Loures suburbs and the Sikh temple for the whole Lisbon area.

  • HinduSanatan Dharm

    Shiv Mandir Portugal (Templo de Shiva)

    Address
    Rua Mário Ventura Henriques 15, 2660-279 Santo António dos Cavaleiros · Directions
    When
    Daily 08:00–12:00 and 17:00–19:30; aarti 08:00–08:30 and 19:00–19:30

    Run by the Associação de Solidariedade Social Templo de Shiva, founded in 1984; the project for a permanent temple began in 1991 and the Bhumipujan was held on 26 August 2001, but the building is still to come, so daily worship goes on in the association’s existing hall. It teaches Portuguese, Hindi, Gujarati and English, runs yoga, and holds Holi and Holika Dahan and a Maha Shivratri programme.

    Website

  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Sikh Sangat Sahib

    Address
    Rua José Duarte Lexim, lote 6, Odivelas · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    The Sikh temple for the Lisbon area, which the Câmara Municipal de Odivelas calls the Templo de Gurdwara Sikh; the municipality reported hundreds of worshippers, with the Indian ambassador and municipal officials, at its celebrations of Guru Nanak’s birthday in November 2019 and November 2024. No website, diwan or langar times are published, and the name and lot number come from gurdwara directories, so ask in the community before you go.

Porto

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We could not confirm a Hindu mandir in the Porto area; the Comunidade Hindu counts members there, but its temple is in Lisbon.

  • HinduISKCON

    ISKCON Porto (Associação Internacional para a Consciência de Krishna)

    Address
    Rua de São Miguel 19, Porto · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    ISKCON’s cultural centre in the historic centre since May 1990, with a vegetarian and vegan restaurant, a shop, a hall and a yoga and meditation room. It holds Vedic-calendar festivals, yoga classes and a Wednesday dinner for people sleeping rough; no temple timetable is published, so use its social pages or ring first.

    Website

  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji

    Address
    Rua de Santos Pousada 601, 4000-487 Porto · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    Porto’s gurdwara, listed by the world gurdwara directories and by Wikipedia. We found no website or news page of its own, so diwan and langar times are not published — ask the community before you travel.

The Algarve

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  • Sikh

    Gurdwara Sri Guru Teg Bahadur Sahib Ji

    Address
    Rua dos Tordos 22A, Quinta da Bela Vista, Albufeira · Directions
    When
    No hours published — ring or ask before a first visit

    The Algarve’s Sikh temple, which a DN report of May 2022 on Sikh workers in Odemira put 82 km from them. Directories give its postcode three ways and no timetable, and it has no page of its own that we found, so confirm the address and the day’s programme before you travel.

Also worth knowing

The Comunidade Hindu de Portugal says it grew from 1975 as families left Mozambique, was constituted in 1982 and counts about 9,000 members in the Lisbon and Porto areas, most from Mozambique and some from the Gujarat territories of Portuguese India. The list is short because the temples are few, and several run from rented or temporary premises: ISKCON Lisboa rents its centre and the Shiva temple’s permanent building has not been built.

Diwali is on Sunday 8 November 2026 and is not a public holiday in Portugal. The Templo Radha Krishna publishes the same evening programme every day, 18:00–20:30 with aarti at 19:30, and no separate Diwali timetable had been published by 31 October, so check its agenda page; the Comunidade’s Diwali Show follows on Sunday 29 November, 17:00–20:30, at the Aula Magna of the Reitoria in Lisbon. Navratri 2026 ran from 11 to 19 October, with the Comunidade’s Navratri “Dairo” evenings, and in 2027 it is 30 September to 8 October; Holi is on Monday 22 March 2027. For Sikhs, Guru Nanak’s birthday is Tuesday 24 November 2026 and Vaisakhi is Wednesday 14 April 2027; we found no published 2026 programme or nagar kirtan for any Portuguese gurdwara, so ask the community.

Take your shoes off before entering a mandir or a gurdwara and dress modestly. In a gurdwara everyone covers their head, usually with a scarf kept at the door, and sits on the floor. Langar, the free vegetarian meal, is served to everyone at a gurdwara; none of the Portuguese gurdwaras publishes its langar times, so ask when you arrive. The Comunidade Hindu’s Cantina Indiana is a restaurant, not langar.

For a house puja, a naming ceremony or a wedding, the temples are the place to ask: the Templo Radha Krishna’s secretariat (Monday to Friday, 09:00–18:00), the Shiv Mandir or the BAPS mandir. The Comunidade also teaches Gujarati, gives Portuguese lessons to migrants and helps them with the legal formalities.

Not listed. In Odemira, DN reported in May 2022 that Sikh workers met every Sunday in a rented hall in the town, and a business register records an Associação Comunidade Sikh Odemira under the name Guru Nanak Darbar in the parish of São Teotónio, but we found no address, hours or later report; Albufeira is the nearest gurdwara we could confirm. We found nothing in Madeira, no Jain temple, no Sathya Sai centre and no Sikh umbrella body, and a Ravidass sabha that one directory places in Lisbon has an incomplete address and no other source. Casa de Goa is a Goan cultural association and the Ismaili Centre on Avenida Lusíada belongs to another tradition; neither is a temple in this list, and nor are the prayer groups in rented rooms where many newer arrivals worship.

On 8 June 2025 police detained the leader of a far-right group during a demonstration on Rua José Duarte Lexim, where the Odivelas temple stands (DN, Correio da Manhã). On 9 October 2026 the Embassy of India said it had been informed of “targeted vilification and discrimination” against people of Indian origin that led to an altercation at the Odivelas gurdwara on 4 October 2026; we found no police or press account of that event. If you meet abuse, report it to the police (112 in an emergency) and tell the Embassy.

Questions people ask

Is there a Hindu temple in Lisbon?
Yes. The Templo Radha Krishna at Alameda Mahatma Gandhi in Lumiar has daily programmes from 08:00 to 10:30 and from 18:00 to 20:30, with aarti at 08:30 and 19:30. The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir at Avenida Almirante Gago Coutinho 120 is open daily from 08:30 to 11:15 and from 16:00 to 20:00, and ISKCON Lisboa is on Rua Casimiro Freire. Just north of the city, the Shiv Mandir in Santo António dos Cavaleiros is open daily from 08:00 to 12:00 and from 17:00 to 19:30.
Which Hindu temple is the main one in Portugal?
The Templo Radha Krishna in Lumiar, Lisbon, inaugurated in November 1998. It belongs to the Comunidade Hindu de Portugal, which counts about 9,000 members in the Lisbon and Porto areas and was constituted in 1982.
Can visitors who are not Hindu go into the Templo Radha Krishna?
Yes. The Comunidade Hindu calls the temple open to everyone. Groups, schools and individuals visit on a guided tour booked in advance by email to the secretariat, and individual requests are added to the scheduled group visits. The rituals are also streamed live online.
Where is the gurdwara in Lisbon?
In Odivelas, just north of the city, on Rua José Duarte Lexim (lote 6): the Gurdwara Sikh Sangat Sahib, which the Câmara Municipal de Odivelas calls the Templo de Gurdwara Sikh. No website or timetable is published. The other gurdwaras we could confirm are in Porto and Albufeira.
Is there a BAPS Swaminarayan temple in Portugal?
Yes, in Lisbon: the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir at Avenida Almirante Gago Coutinho 120, 1700-033, open to the public every day from 08:30 to 11:15 and from 16:00 to 20:00, with arti at 08:30 and 19:30.
Is there an ISKCON temple in Portugal?
ISKCON has centres in Lisbon (Rua Casimiro Freire 4A, with a Sunday feast from 16:00 on its own timetable) and in Porto (Rua de São Miguel 19, with a vegetarian restaurant). The Lisbon community rents its premises and is raising money for a permanent temple.
Is there a Hindu temple in Porto?
We could not confirm a Hindu mandir in the Porto area. The Comunidade Hindu de Portugal counts members there, but its temple is in Lisbon. Porto has an ISKCON centre at Rua de São Miguel 19 and a gurdwara at Rua de Santos Pousada 601.
Is there a gurdwara in the Algarve or the Alentejo?
The Algarve has the Gurdwara Sri Guru Teg Bahadur Sahib Ji in Albufeira. In Odemira, in the Alentejo, DN reported in May 2022 that Sikh workers met every Sunday in a rented hall; we could not confirm a gurdwara there today, and DN put the Albufeira temple 82 km away.
Is there a Jain temple in Portugal?
We found none: no Jain temple, centre or association in Portugal turned up in our searches, so none is listed.
Is Diwali a public holiday in Portugal, and what do the temples do?
No. Diwali is on Sunday 8 November 2026, a rest day for most people. The Templo Radha Krishna keeps its usual evening programme from 18:00 to 20:30 and had published no separate Diwali timetable by 31 October; its Diwali Show is on Sunday 29 November at the Aula Magna in Lisbon. Gurdwaras keep Bandi Chhor Divas the same night, and Guru Nanak’s birthday is Tuesday 24 November 2026.

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

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