ISKCON Barcelona (Hare Krishna Temple)
Barcelona, Spain
- Deities
- Radha Krishna
- Traditions
- vaishnava
- Worship status
- active
- Address
- Plaça Reial 12, Entlo. 2, 08002 Barcelona, Spain
- Coordinates
- 41.3799, 2.1756
- Darshan hours
- Daily morning spiritual program 4:30-8:30 am; Sunday program 5:30-8:30 pm (free entry: devotional music, mantras, philosophy, ceremony, kirtan and dance); Bhagavad-gita study group Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 pm; the affiliated vegetarian dining hall is open Mon-Fri 1:30-3:30 pm (closed weekends, holidays, and August). Consult ISKCON Barcelona 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
- In Barcelona's Barri Gòtic, at Plaça Reial 12 (also referenced via the adjoining Carrer del Vidre 12); reachable by Barcelona Metro to Liceu station.
- Associated saints
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Location
Open in Google MapsISKCON established a temple in Barcelona in 1976, making it, per Wikipedia’s overview of Hinduism in Spain, “one of the first minority religions” to organize formally in the country during the years immediately following the end of the Franco dictatorship (1975) and Spain’s subsequent transition to religious pluralism. This predates by roughly two decades the founding of New Vraja Mandala in Brihuega, Guadalajara — the ISKCON rural community already documented elsewhere in this directory — making Barcelona’s temple the older, urban anchor of ISKCON’s presence in Spain.
Today the Barcelona temple offers Bhagavad Gita study classes and other spiritual programs to the city’s Gaudiya Vaishnava community, part of a wider Spanish ISKCON network that also includes vegetarian restaurants and additional agricultural communities such as one at Churriana Malanga. Beyond its 1976 founding date and ongoing program offerings, the source available for this entry gives no further detail on the temple’s exact address, founders, or building; fuller documentation would need to be confirmed directly with ISKCON Barcelona.
Sources
- historical record: Cross-checked against Wikipedia's 'Hinduism in Spain' article: confirms 'ISKCON was established in Barcelona in 1976 as one of the first minority religions in Spain,' that the Barcelona temple offers Bhagavad Gita classes and other spiritual programs, and that ISKCON in Spain also operates vegetarian restaurants and agricultural communities, including at Brihuega (the already-documented New Vraja Mandala) and Churriana Malanga.
- historical record: Wave 2 follow-up: address confirmed identically on both the temple's own current site (krishnabcn.com) and the Spanish ISKCON federation site (harekrishna.es/templos/barcelona/), with a matching phone number on both; independently corroborated by an OpenStreetMap POI named 'Templo Hare Krishna' at the adjoining Carrer del Vidre 12 (a corner-building address pair with Plaça Reial 12), carrying the same phone number and an email (iebhaktivedanta@gmail.com) in its tags. Also confirms an affiliated Govinda vegetarian restaurant at Plaça de la Vila de Madrid 4-5, Barcelona.
For review
- Founders and detailed building history of the Barcelona temple beyond its 1976 founding year were not confirmed in any source found. The deity 'Radha Krishna' is inferred from standard ISKCON practice rather than independently confirmed for this specific temple.