ISKCON Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Deities
- Radha Krishna
- Traditions
- vaishnava
- Worship status
- active
- Darshan hours
- Varies by temple and season; consult the temple's own website for the current daily schedule before visiting.
- Best time to visit
- Janmashtami is the community's largest annual observance.
- How to reach
- ISKCON maintains temples in Kuala Lumpur; consult the organization's own website for the current address of its center(s) before visiting.
- Festivals
- Janmashtami (August/September)
- Associated saints
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Location
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ISKCON maintains an active presence in Kuala Lumpur and elsewhere across Malaysia, part of the wider Gaudiya Vaishnava community that has grown in the country since the movement’s international expansion under Founder-Acharya A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. As in other Southeast Asian countries with significant Hindu minority populations (largely of Tamil and North Indian descent), ISKCON in Malaysia operates alongside other Krishna Consciousness-adjacent groups, including followers associated with the Ritvik and Hansadutta Swami lineages and the older Gaudiya Math and Saraswat Math traditions from which ISKCON itself descends.
Public information confirming a single named flagship temple, exact address, or founding date for ISKCON’s Kuala Lumpur operations was not found during this research pass; this entry documents the confirmed fact of ISKCON’s ongoing presence and temple activity in the city, pending a more specific source that can confirm the details of a particular building.
Sources
- historical record: Cross-checked against Wikipedia's Hinduism in Malaysia article during this research pass: confirms, in its 'Temples and religious bodies' section, that 'the International Society for Krishna Consciousness also has a number of followers in Malaysia, and maintains temples in Kuala Lumpur and also all over Malaysia.' No specific temple name, address, or founding date is given in this source.
For review
- This entry rests on a single general Wikipedia sentence confirming that ISKCON maintains temple(s) in Kuala Lumpur; no specific building name, exact address, or founding date could be confirmed via Wikipedia or an official ISKCON Malaysia website in this session (several plausible official-site domain names did not resolve). Treat 'ISKCON Kuala Lumpur' here as a descriptive label for ISKCON's confirmed general presence in the city, not a verified proper name of one specific temple.
- The same source notes Malaysia is also home to related but organizationally distinct Krishna Consciousness groups (followers of Ritvik, followers of Hansadutta Swami, Gaudiya Math, Saraswat Math); this entry concerns mainstream ISKCON specifically, not these related groups.