ISKCON Myanmar (Myitkyina)
Myitkyina, Kachin State, Myanmar
- Deities
- Radha Krishna
- Traditions
- vaishnava
- Worship status
- active
- Darshan hours
- Varies by center and season; consult ISKCON directly for the current schedule before visiting.
- Best time to visit
- Janmashtami is the community's largest annual observance.
- How to reach
- ISKCON maintains centres across Myanmar, with its largest community concentrated in Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State in the country's north; consult the organization directly for the current address of a specific center before visiting.
- Festivals
- Janmashtami (August/September)
- Associated saints
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Location
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The Hare Krishna movement (ISKCON) maintains an organized presence across Myanmar, with Wikipedia’s account of Hinduism in the country identifying Myitkyina — the capital of northern Kachin State, well outside the more commonly Hindu-associated cities of Yangon and Mandalay — as home to the country’s largest Hare Krishna community, numbering around 400 followers. The same source records a wider national network of twelve ISKCON centres and an affiliated school in Zayyawadi providing religious education to brahmacharis, part of the broader Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition founded internationally under Founder-Acharya A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
No single named temple building, exact address, or founding date for the Myitkyina community could be confirmed from the source checked in this pass; this entry documents the confirmed fact and scale of ISKCON’s presence there pending more specific sourcing on individual center names and histories across Myanmar’s wider twelve-center network.
Sources
- historical record: Cross-checked against Wikipedia's Hinduism in Myanmar article during this research pass: confirms 'ISKCON (Hare Krishna) has a presence in Myanmar. The largest Hare Krishna community is in Myitkyina, which has about 400 followers,' and separately that 'ISKCON has 12 centres in Myanmar and a school in Zayyawadi, which provides religious education to brahmacharis.'
For review
- No specific temple building name, exact address, or founding date could be confirmed from the source checked in this pass; this entry documents ISKCON's confirmed organizational presence in Myanmar, centered on its largest reported community in Myitkyina (about 400 followers as of the source's data), rather than a single verified named temple structure. The source also states ISKCON operates 12 centres nationwide plus a school in Zayyawadi, so this entry should not be read as covering the entirety of ISKCON's Myanmar presence.
- Follow the same convention already used elsewhere in this directory (e.g., ISKCON Kuala Lumpur, ISKCON New Gaya Tokyo) for documenting a confirmed-but-not-precisely-localized ISKCON presence.