ISKCON South Centre
Debe, Trinidad and Tobago
- Deities
- Radha Krishna
- Traditions
- vaishnava
- Worship status
- active
- Darshan hours
- Varies by event; consult the local ISKCON preaching center directly for the current schedule before visiting.
- Best time to visit
- Year-round; Janmashtami is generally the largest annual festival at ISKCON centers worldwide, alongside Diwali, celebrated nationally in Trinidad with particular prominence.
- How to reach
- On Orion Drive, Debe, in south Trinidad, in the Penal-Debe region with a dense Indo-Trinidadian population.
- Festivals
- Janmashtami (August/September), Diwali (October/November)
- Associated saints
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Location
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ISKCON South Centre, on Orion Drive in Debe, is documented in Wikipedia’s “List of Hindu temples in Trinidad and Tobago” as one of at least two ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness)-affiliated centers in Trinidad, alongside the Sri Sri Radha Gopinath Mandir in Longdenville. Debe sits within south Trinidad’s Penal-Debe region, one of the island’s most heavily Indo-Trinidadian areas, consistent with ISKCON’s broader pattern of establishing preaching centers within existing concentrations of diaspora Hindu population across the Americas.
As with ISKCON centers generally, worship here would be expected to center on Radha-Krishna in the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition founded by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, with congregational kirtan, festival celebrations (notably Janmashtami), and prasadam distribution. However, Wikipedia’s own source list flags this specific entry as needing stronger citation, and no founding date, founders, or independent second source could be located for it in this pass; it should be treated as provisional.
Sources
- historical record: Listed with its address ('Orion Drive, Debe') in Wikipedia's 'List of Hindu temples in Trinidad and Tobago' article, marked there with a 'citation needed' tag as of May 2023, indicating even that article's editors flagged it as needing stronger sourcing. ISKCON's global network and general presence in Trinidad and Tobago (alongside a second listed ISKCON-affiliated site, the 'ISKCON Sri Sri Radha Gopinath Mandir' in Longdenville) is well documented generally, though this specific Debe centre was not independently corroborated by a second source in this pass.
For review
- Wikipedia's own 'List of Hindu temples in Trinidad and Tobago' article flags this entry's address with a 'citation needed' tag (as of May 2023), so its sourcing is weaker than most entries in this directory; it is included because ISKCON's broader presence in Trinidad (including a separately listed Longdenville ISKCON centre) is well documented, and Debe is a real, well-known town in south Trinidad's Indo-Trinidadian heartland, but this specific centre's founding date, founders, and current operating status were not independently confirmed.