ISKCON Hawaii Temple (Govinda's Hawaii)
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- Deities
- Pancha Tattva deities (Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and associates; individual deity names not specified in sources consulted)
- Traditions
- vaishnava
- Worship status
- active
- Address
- 51 Coelho Way, Honolulu, HI 96817, in the Nu'uanu area of Honolulu, Oahu.
- Coordinates
- 21.3301173, -157.8468782
- Darshan hours
- Not confirmed beyond general daily operating hours of the on-site restaurant; consult ISKCON Hawaii directly for the current temple schedule before visiting.
- Best time to visit
- Major Gaudiya Vaishnava festivals such as Janmashtami and Gaura Purnima, consistent with other ISKCON centres; confirm the current calendar with the temple.
- How to reach
- At 51 Coelho Way in the Nu'uanu area of Honolulu, Oahu; the same address also houses the temple's Govinda's Hawaii vegetarian buffet restaurant.
- Associated saints
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Location
Open in Google MapsPrabhupada’s followers established a Krishna-consciousness mission in Honolulu in 1969, and Hawaii went on to hold particular personal significance for A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada himself: according to the temple’s own account, he personally stayed there and translated Vedic texts between 1974 and 1976, a period the temple now commemorates as the “Srila Prabhupada Memorial Tirtha.” The temple operates today at 51 Coelho Way in Honolulu’s Nu’uanu area, alongside its long-running Govinda’s Hawaii vegetarian buffet restaurant at the same address.
Described by at least one independent travel-review source as “the main Hindu temple in Honolulu,” the temple continues to operate as an active ISKCON center, listed in ISKCON’s own current worldwide directory. Beyond its founding date, address, and the Pancha Tattva devotional tradition centered on Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu that it follows, further specifics — individual deity names, a founding leader, and a detailed festival calendar — could not be confirmed from the sources available for this entry.
Sources
- historical record: Cross-checked against the temple's own official website, iskconhawaii.com: 'Since 1969, His Divine A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the founder-acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, has been distributing the matchless gifts of Krishna Consciousness throughout the Hawaiian Islands,' with the address 51 Coelho Way, Honolulu, HI 96817 given on its temple page, and the site separately naming a 'Srila Prabhupada Memorial Tirtha' commemorating a room where Prabhupada personally stayed and translated Vedic texts from 1974-1976. Independently corroborated via ISKCON's own current global centre directory, centres.iskcon.org, which lists 'ISKCON Hare Krishna Temple (Govinda's Vegetarian Buffet)' at the same address, and via a TripAdvisor listing describing it as 'the main Hindu temple in Honolulu' with a matching phone number. Address independently confirmed via OpenStreetMap/Nominatim geocoding, which resolves 51 Coelho Way to a point explicitly tagged 'Govinda's Vegetarian Buffet' in Nu'uanu, Honolulu.
For review
- Individual deity names (beyond the general 'Pancha Tattva' description tied to Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu) could not be confirmed from the temple's own website or other sources consulted in this research pass. No dedicated Wikipedia article exists for this temple; sourcing rests on the temple's own official website, ISKCON's own global directory, and a TripAdvisor listing rather than independent secondary/journalistic coverage, so this entry is marked pending rather than verified.
- A separate, much smaller and unrelated 'Sri Giriraja Mandir' home shrine exists near Volcano on Hawaii's Big Island; it is not the same institution as this Oahu/Honolulu temple and is not documented here.