Chaguanas Hindu Temple
Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago
- Deities
- Hindu deities (unspecified in available sources)
- Traditions
- other
- Worship status
- active
- Darshan hours
- Varies by season; consult the temple's own management for the current daily schedule before visiting.
- Best time to visit
- Year-round tropical climate; Diwali is celebrated nationally in Trinidad with particular prominence, and Chaguanas hosts the annual Divali Nagar national festival site.
- How to reach
- At the corner of Cumberbatch and Chaguanas Main Road, Chaguanas, central Trinidad — one of the island's largest and most heavily Indo-Trinidadian towns.
Location
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The Chaguanas Hindu Temple stands at the corner of Cumberbatch Street and Chaguanas Main Road in Chaguanas, central Trinidad — one of the island’s largest towns and among its most heavily Indo-Trinidadian, home also to the annual Divali Nagar grounds where Trinidad’s national Diwali festival is centered each year.
Its central, main-road location suggests a role as one of the town’s principal congregational mandirs, though — as with many of the numerous individually named Hindu temples clustered throughout greater Chaguanas (including this directory’s separately documented Trinidad Sevashram Sangha, in the town’s Felicity area) — no founding date, founders, or specific presiding deity could be confirmed for it individually in this pass, and it should not be assumed to share institutional history with any other Chaguanas-area mandir.
Sources
- historical record: Listed with its address ('Corner Cumberbatch & Chaguanas Main Road') and a linked Facebook page in Wikipedia's 'List of Hindu temples in Trinidad and Tobago' article. Chaguanas is independently well documented (including in this directory's other Trinidad entries) as one of Trinidad's largest and most heavily Indo-Trinidadian towns and the site of the annual Divali Nagar national Diwali festival grounds; the temple itself carries no further founding date, founders, or presiding-deity detail in available sources.
For review
- Named with a specific street-corner address in Wikipedia's dedicated temple list; Chaguanas itself is independently well documented as a major Indo-Trinidadian population center, but no founding date, founders, or specific presiding deity could be confirmed for this particular temple (as distinct from the many other named mandirs also located within greater Chaguanas, such as this directory's separately-documented Trinidad Sevashram Sangha in the Felicity area of Chaguanas).