ISKCON Balramdesh Temple, Manama
Manama, Bahrain
- Deities
- Radha Krishna
- Traditions
- vaishnava
- Worship status
- active
- Darshan hours
- Varies by season; consult the temple's own contacts for the current daily schedule before visiting.
- Best time to visit
- Janmashtami is the community's largest annual observance.
- How to reach
- Located in Manama, Bahrain's capital; reachable by road/taxi from anywhere in the city, with Bahrain International Airport as the nearest airport.
- Festivals
- Janmashtami (August/September)
- Associated saints
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Location
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The ISKCON Balramdesh Temple in Manama serves Bahrain’s Hare Krishna community as part of the worldwide Gaudiya Vaishnava movement founded by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. It operates alongside Bahrain’s historic 1817 Shrinathji Temple and an established BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir (both documented separately in this directory), reflecting the diversity of Vaishnava devotional communities long present in the country.
Specific founding-date and architectural details for this temple were not available from the sources checked in this research pass; it is documented here on the strength of a named, specific reference in a general survey of Hinduism in Bahrain, distinguishing it from this directory’s more thinly sourced “ISKCON presence confirmed, specific building unconfirmed” entries elsewhere in the region.
Sources
- historical record: Cross-checked against Wikipedia's 'Hinduism in Bahrain' article, which names 'ISKCON Balramdesh temple' directly among Bahrain's Hindu temples, and against the 'List of Hindu temples outside India' Wikipedia article, which cites ISKCON Desire Tree (2019) for an ISKCON center in Bahrain. No dedicated Wikipedia article exists and the official iskconbahrain.com site could not be reached in this research pass, so no address or founding date could be independently confirmed beyond the temple's name and city.
For review
- This entry rests on the specific name given in Wikipedia's 'Hinduism in Bahrain' article ('ISKCON Balramdesh temple'); no independent confirmation of an exact address or founding date was possible in this pass since the organization's own website could not be reached. This is somewhat better-sourced than this directory's other hedged ISKCON entries (Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo), which lack even a specific building name, but should still be independently verified before treating address/founding details as settled.