ISKCON Brisbane (Sri Sri Gaura Nitai Temple)
Darra, Brisbane, Australia
Also known as: Brisbane Hare Krishna Temple
- Deities
- Krishna (Chaitanya Mahaprabhu), Balarama (Nityananda)
- Traditions
- vaishnava
- Worship status
- active
- Address
- 8 Lee Road, Darra, QLD 4076.
- Coordinates
- -27.5672, 152.9526
- Darshan hours
- Daily; weekly programs include Saturday Feast at 5:00pm (kirtan, class, evening aarti, prasadam dinner 6-7pm) and Srimad Bhagavatam classes daily via Zoom plus in-person Saturday/Sunday mornings at 7:30am.
- Best time to visit
- Year-round; Saturday evenings for the weekly feast program, or Janmashtami for the temple's major annual festival.
- How to reach
- At 8 Lee Road, Darra, in Brisbane's southwest, roughly a 3-minute walk from Darra railway station on the Ipswich/Rosewood line, reachable by car or train.
- Festivals
- Janmashtami (August/September)
Location
Open in Google MapsISKCON Brisbane operates the Sri Sri Gaura Nitai Temple at 8 Lee Road in the Darra suburb of southwest Brisbane, part of the worldwide International Society for Krishna Consciousness founded by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. By its own account, “Sri Sri Gaura Nitai have been worshipped at ISKCON Brisbane for almost 50 years,” placing the congregation’s roots at roughly the mid-1970s, though its exact founding date and any earlier premises are not documented in sources consulted this pass. The temple centers its worship on Sri Sri Gaura Nitai — the paired deity forms of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (regarded in Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition as a combined incarnation of Krishna and Radha) and his companion Nityananda (identified with Balarama) — reflecting the Bengali bhakti lineage from which ISKCON descends.
Its current Darra building, a former church purchased for $1.7 million (financed with a $1.4 million loan) and rezoned as a place of worship, opened on Saturday 28 February 2026 during Gaura Purnima week — timed, per the temple, to its “Golden Jubilee Year.” The center runs an active weekly program built around a Saturday evening feast at 5pm, featuring kirtan (devotional chanting), a spiritual class, evening aarti (lamp ceremony), and a vegetarian prasadam dinner served 6-7pm, alongside daily Srimad Bhagavatam study classes (held both via Zoom and in person on weekend mornings) and Friday evening Harinam Sankirtan (public chanting processions) from King George Square in the Brisbane CBD, complementing the affiliated Govinda’s vegetarian and vegan restaurant it runs in the Brisbane CBD.
Sources
- historical record: Cross-checked directly against ISKCON Brisbane's official website (iskconbrisbane.com.au), which confirms the address as 8 Lee Road, Darra QLD 4076; the temple's deities center on Sri Sri Gaura Nitai (Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Nityananda/Balarama); and announces a recently opened new temple building ('ISKCON Brisbane's New Temple is Open!'). Confirms weekly Saturday Feast (5pm, kirtan/class/aarti/prasadam), daily Srimad Bhagavatam classes, and Friday evening Harinam Sankirtan from King George Square in the Brisbane CBD. The affiliated Govinda's restaurant serves vegetarian/vegan food in the Brisbane CBD.
- historical record: Coordinates added this pass via OpenStreetMap/Nominatim geocoding of Lee Road, Darra QLD 4076 (approximately -27.5672, 152.9526); this is street-level, not building-exact, since a precise match for house number 8 specifically was not returned.
- historical record: Re-fetched this pass: the site's dedicated 'New Temple Information' page states the new Darra building — previously a church, zoned as a place of worship, purchased for $1.7 million (financed with a $1.4 million loan) — opened on Saturday 28 February 2026, and that it sits about 3 minutes' walk from Darra railway station. Separately, the site's 'About' page states 'Sri Sri Gaura Nitai have been worshipped at ISKCON Brisbane for almost 50 years' and describes the new temple's opening, during Gaura Purnima week, as falling in ISKCON Brisbane's 'Golden Jubilee Year' — implying the Brisbane congregation itself traces to roughly the mid-1970s, though no exact founding date or founder is given, and it is not stated whether the Darra site specifically has been in continuous use since then or is a more recent home for an older congregation.
For review
- Partially resolved this pass: ISKCON Brisbane's own site now gives an opening date for its new Darra temple building (28 February 2026, a former church purchased for $1.7 million) and frames it as falling in the congregation's 'Golden Jubilee Year' (implying roughly a 1970s founding, 'almost 50 years' of Gaura Nitai worship as of 2026), but no exact founding date, founder, or confirmation of continuous occupancy at this specific Darra site was found, so the original founding date remains unconfirmed.