BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Lisbon

Lisbon, Portugal

Pending reviewDocumented history

Deities

Swaminarayan

Traditions

vaishnava

Worship status

active

Darshan hours

Varies; consult BAPS directly for the current schedule before visiting.

Best time to visit

Diwali and other major BAPS Swaminarayan festivals; confirm the current calendar with the temple.

How to reach

In the city of Lisbon, Portugal; consult BAPS Portugal for the current exact address.

Location

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BAPS (Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha), the Gujarati Hindu organization behind landmark temples such as London’s Neasden Mandir and the Cardiff Swaminarayan Mandir, both already documented elsewhere in this directory, inaugurated a mandir in Lisbon on 28 September 2014. This is distinct from the city’s older Radha Krishna Mandir in the Lumiar district, which opened in 1998 and is also already documented in this directory, indicating that Lisbon — home to the majority of Portugal’s recorded Hindu population, concentrated in the greater Lisbon metropolitan area — now supports more than one organized strand of Hindu worship. BAPS’s own records show the Lisbon mandir has remained continuously active in the years since, hosting Swaminarayan Jayanti celebrations in 2015, a sixth-anniversary Patotsav celebration in 2020, and Pramukh Swami Maharaj Centennial celebrations in 2023.

As at BAPS’s other mandirs worldwide, worship here can be presumed to center on Swaminarayan, the tradition’s founding guru venerated within the Swaminarayan Sampraday as a manifestation of the divine, though no source available for this entry gives further detail on the mandir’s exact address, building, or congregation size. Fuller documentation would need to be confirmed directly with BAPS Portugal.

Sources

historical record: Cross-checked against Wikipedia's 'Hinduism in Portugal' article, which states that 'the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha inaugurated a new mandir in the city in 2014,' distinct from the already-documented Radha Krishna Mandir (Lumiar, Lisbon, opened 1998).
historical record: Wave 2 follow-up: BAPS's own news feed (surfaced via a Google News RSS aggregation of baps.org content) pins the inauguration to a precise date, 28 September 2014 ('Opening of New BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Lisbon, Portugal'), and documents continued activity there in subsequent years: Swaminarayan Jayanti celebrations (28 March 2015), 6th Patotsav (anniversary) celebrations (27 September 2020, consistent with the 2014 founding), and Pramukh Swami Maharaj Centennial celebrations (8 January 2023). Portuguese Wikipedia's 'Hinduísmo em Portugal' article, by contrast, lists only three Lisbon-area temples (Templo Jai Ambé/Portela-Loures, 1983; the already-documented Radha Krishna Mandir/Lumiar, 1998; and a Templo de Shiva in Santo António dos Cavaleiros) without a BAPS entry, so this mandir remains corroborated only through BAPS's own materials rather than an independent third-party source. No exact street address or coordinates could be found: baps.org's own mandir locator could not be reached (it blocks automated access), the address does not appear in OpenStreetMap, and no BAPS Lisbon entry appears in the Portuguese Wikipedia overview.

For review

No exact address, architectural description, or independent (non-BAPS) source could be found; the deity 'Swaminarayan' is inferred from BAPS's standard practice at all its temples worldwide (as at the already-documented Neasden Temple in London and Cardiff temple) rather than independently confirmed for this specific Lisbon mandir.