Indian businesses and services in Melbourne, Australia

Foster Street in Dandenong, in Melbourne's south-east, has been developed as the city's Little India cultural precinct, with sari and jewellery shops, grocers, sweet shops and restaurants a short walk from Dandenong station. It remains the focal point, but it is no longer the only cluster. Much of the recent growth has been in the outer west and north, in suburbs such as Tarneit, Truganina, Werribee, Point Cook and Craigieburn, where new housing estates have attracted many young Indian families and shopping strips have followed.

Temples and gurdwaras reflect that spread. The Shri Shiva Vishnu Temple at Carrum Downs, in the south-east, is one of Melbourne's largest Hindu temples and serves both Shaivite and Vaishnavite worship, and the Sri Durga Temple in the outer west serves the growing communities there. There are gurdwaras in several parts of the metro, as well as Swaminarayan mandirs and mosques with Pakistani and Bangladeshi congregations.

Diwali brings community events organised by councils and cultural associations, and temples run their own festivities across October and November; Vaisakhi, Holi, Onam and Pongal are observed too. Dandenong is on the Pakenham and Cranbourne train lines, under an hour from the city, and is busiest on weekend afternoons. The western suburbs are easier by car, though Tarneit and Wyndham Vale stations on the Geelong line help.