Indian businesses and services in Sydney, Australia

Harris Park, right next to Parramatta, is where most Sydneysiders would send you first. The streets around Wigram Street, which the City of Parramatta has branded Little India, have filled in recent decades with Indian restaurants, sweet shops, grocers and jewellers, and on weekend evenings the footpaths are crowded. Parramatta itself, along with Westmead, Wentworthville, Pendle Hill, Toongabbie and Blacktown, forms a wider belt of Indian and Sri Lankan settlement across Western Sydney, while Lakemba in the south-west has a strong Bangladeshi and Pakistani presence around Haldon Street, especially lively during Ramadan.

Some important temples sit away from the centre. The Sri Venkateswara Temple at Helensburgh, just beyond Sydney's southern edge on the road to Wollongong, is set in bushland and makes a common day trip, while the Sydney Murugan Temple at Mays Hill, close to Parramatta, is a centre for the Tamil community. Gurdwaras, Swaminarayan mandirs and mosques with South Asian congregations are found throughout the western suburbs.

The City of Parramatta runs a Diwali programme in the city centre, and temples hold their own events through October and November; Thaipusam, Vaisakhi, Holi and Onam are also observed by their communities. Harris Park has its own railway station, one stop from Parramatta, and both are easy to reach by train from the city. Parking in Harris Park on a Friday or Saturday night is scarce, so the train is usually the better option.