Hare Krishna Temple, Zurich (ISKCON)
Zurich, Switzerland
- Deities
- Radha Krishna
- Traditions
- vaishnava
- Worship status
- active
- Address
- Bergstrasse 54, 8032 Zürich (Hottingen, Kreis 7)
- Coordinates
- 47.3726095, 8.5629084
- Darshan hours
- Varies; consult ISKCON Zurich directly for the current schedule before visiting.
- Best time to visit
- Janmashtami and other major Gaudiya Vaishnava festivals, consistent with other ISKCON centres; confirm the current calendar with the temple.
- How to reach
- At Bergstrasse 54 in the Hottingen area of Zurich's Kreis 7.
- Associated saints
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Location
Open in Google MapsAccording to Wikipedia’s account of Hinduism in Switzerland, devotees of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) first arrived in the country in 1972, and the movement’s founder, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, visited Switzerland multiple times over the following decade. That early missionary activity culminated in 1980 with the opening of a Hare Krishna temple in Zurich, which the same source describes as the first Hindu temple established in Switzerland — predating by more than a decade the wave of Sri Lankan Tamil Saiva temples that would later open in towns around Zurich, such as Adliswil and Glattbrugg, from the mid-1990s onward.
Beyond this founding date and its ISKCON (Gaudiya Vaishnava) affiliation, little further detail about the temple’s exact location, founders, or subsequent history could be confirmed in the sources available for this entry. It is presented here as a historically significant but currently thinly documented entry, pending fuller sourcing.
Sources
- historical record: Cross-checked against Wikipedia's 'Hinduism in Switzerland' article: confirms ISKCON devotees arrived in Switzerland in 1972, that founder A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada visited the country multiple times during the 1970s, and that the movement 'attracted local converts and built its first temple in 1980' in Zurich, described in that article as the first Hindu temple in Switzerland.
- historical record: Wave 2 follow-up: address and coordinates found via an OpenStreetMap place-of-worship way tagged 'Hare Krishna Tempel' at Bergstrasse 54, 8032 Zürich (religion=hindu, denomination=hare_krishna), linked to Wikidata item Q1585238, which independently confirms the same coordinates. No current official website or named founders could be confirmed; German Wikipedia's 'Hare-Krishna-Bewegung' article corroborates only that 'ISKCON operates a Hare Krishna temple in Zurich,' without further detail.
For review
- No dedicated article, founder names, or further history beyond the 1980 founding date and now-confirmed address could be found in the sources consulted for this entry.
- The claim that this was 'the first Hindu temple in Switzerland' — predating the Sri Lankan Tamil Saiva temples founded in Zurich-area towns such as Adliswil and Glattbrugg from the 1990s onward — is the source's own characterization and was not independently cross-verified against a second source.