Ireland Ananda Sidhi Vinayaka Temple
Dublin (Kingswood), Ireland
- Deities
- Vinayaka (Ganesha)
- Traditions
- shaiva
- Worship status
- active
- Address
- Kingswood, Dublin 24, Ireland
- Darshan hours
- Mon-Thu 8:00-10:00 am and 5:30-6:30 pm; Fri 8:00-10:00 am and 6:30-7:45 pm; Sat 8:00-10:00 am and 6:45-8:15 pm; Sun 9:00-11:45 am and 3:00-5:30 pm (per an archived 2025 snapshot of the temple's own site, ivt.ie, which is currently unreachable - confirm before visiting).
- Best time to visit
- Ganesh Chaturthi (Aug/Sep) is presumed significant given the temple's dedication to Vinayaka (Ganesha), but no specific festival calendar for this temple was found in available sources — confirm directly with the temple.
- How to reach
- In Kingswood, Dublin 24, in south-west Dublin; reachable by road or Dublin's public bus network from the city centre.
Location
Open in Google MapsIreland’s Hindu population grew rapidly in the early twenty-first century, reaching 33,043 residents in the 2022 census — up 131% since 2016 — with the community skewing young and professional (roughly half in professional occupations, including a notable share working as software developers). Among the small number of dedicated Hindu temples that emerged in Dublin to serve this growing population is the Ireland Ananda Sidhi Vinayaka Temple in Kingswood, Dublin 24, dedicated to Vinayaka (Ganesha) under his Siddhi Vinayaka aspect, the form widely invoked as remover of obstacles at the start of undertakings.
Beyond its listing among Dublin’s active Hindu places of worship — alongside the Hare Krishna Cultural Centre in Dublin 1 and the Vedic Hindu Cultural Centre in Walkinstown — no independently documented history of this specific temple’s founding or early years could be located. It is best understood as part of the broader wave of community-built Hindu institutions, including others in Letterkenny (Donegal) and Enfield (Meath), that accompanied Ireland’s fast-growing Hindu population over the past two decades.
Sources
- historical record: Cross-checked against Wikipedia's 'Hinduism in the Republic of Ireland' article, which lists this temple (citing the temple's own website, ivt.ie) at Kingswood, Dublin 24, among Ireland's Hindu places of worship. The temple's own website could not be reached via available fetch tools during authoring, so this entry relies on the Wikipedia listing alone.
- historical record: Wave 2 follow-up: ivt.ie remains unreachable directly (confirmed down as of September 2026), but a February 2025 Wayback Machine snapshot was retrieved, confirming the official name 'Ireland Vinayaka Temple' (registered as Ireland Vinayaka Temple Ltd.), the darshan hours now added to this entry, contact details (feedback@ivt.ie, phone 086 888 1905), that the temple's priest also serves a Galway congregation, and that it holds regular Samuhika Rudrabhishekam group poojas. No OSM point-of-interest exists for the temple itself; only an area-level centroid for the Kingswood/Tallaght locality could be found, which was not precise enough to add as a coordinate for this entry (note: a second, unrelated 'Kingswood' area exists near Clondalkin, Dublin 22 - not to be confused with this Kingswood, Dublin 24).
For review
- Founding/establishment year not found in any source consulted, including the archived version of the temple's own site. No precise street address, Eircode, or coordinates could be confirmed - only an imprecise, area-level locality centroid was found, which was deliberately not added to avoid a false impression of precision.