ISKCON Marondera
Marondera, Zimbabwe
- Deities
- Krishna
- Traditions
- vaishnava
- Worship status
- active
- Darshan hours
- Not documented in available sources; consult ISKCON's own centre listing for current timings before visiting.
- Best time to visit
- Janmashtami is likely a major observance given the centre's Krishna-oriented (ISKCON) affiliation, though this specific centre's own festival calendar was not independently documented this pass.
- How to reach
- In Marondera, a town in Mashonaland East Province, Zimbabwe, roughly 70km southeast of Harare.
Location
Search for "ISKCON Marondera" on Google MapsThis temple's exact coordinates aren't confirmed yet, so the link above searches by name and city rather than pointing to a verified spot.
Described in Wikipedia’s overview of Hinduism in Zimbabwe simply as a centre of “the Krishna-oriented ISKCON” (International Society for Krishna Consciousness), this Marondera institution is one of only two Hindu places of worship the source names for the entire country - the other being the much older Omkar Temple in Harare, already documented in this directory, whose foundation stone was laid in 1929.
Marondera, a town in Mashonaland East Province roughly 70km southeast of Harare, thus hosts what available sources indicate is Zimbabwe’s second organised Hindu place of worship, reflecting ISKCON’s global pattern of establishing centres even within small diaspora Hindu communities. No founding date, address, or further detail on this centre’s history or current activities was located during this research pass.
Sources
- historical record: Cross-checked against Wikipedia's 'Hinduism in Zimbabwe' article, which states verbatim: 'The Krishna-oriented ISKCON has a centre at Marondera.' The same article notes Zimbabwe has 'two Hindu temples' - the already-documented Omkar Temple in Harare (the first, foundation stone laid 1929) being the other - without naming the second one directly in that specific sentence, but the ISKCON Marondera centre mentioned elsewhere in the article is the only other Hindu place of worship it names for the country.
For review
- This centre is confirmed only via a single sentence in Wikipedia's 'Hinduism in Zimbabwe' article, with no founding date, address, or further institutional detail found this pass. The same source's own existing directory entry for the Omkar Temple (Harare) already references this Marondera centre as 'a second Hindu place of worship' in Zimbabwe; this entry gives it its own record rather than leaving it only as a passing mention in the Omkar Temple file.