Kailash Mandir
Belmont, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
- Deities
- Hindu deities (unspecified in available sources)
- Traditions
- other
- Worship status
- active
- Darshan hours
- Varies by season; consult the temple's own management for the current daily schedule before visiting.
- Best time to visit
- Year-round tropical climate; Diwali is celebrated nationally in Trinidad with particular prominence.
- How to reach
- At 10b Gonzales Circular Road, Temple Street, Belmont — Port of Spain's oldest suburb, in the city's north-east at the foot of the Laventille Hills.
Location
Search for "Kailash Mandir" 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.
Kailash Mandir stands on Temple Street in Belmont — Port of Spain’s oldest suburb, settled at the foot of the Laventille Hills in the city’s north-east — making it, so far as documented in this directory, the only entry located within the Trinidadian capital itself. Its name, invoking Mount Kailash, the Himalayan abode of Shiva in Hindu cosmology, suggests a likely association with Shiva worship, though this was not independently confirmed.
Like many of Trinidad’s neighborhood mandirs, it most likely serves as a local congregational temple for Port of Spain’s Indo-Trinidadian Hindu residents, consistent with the pattern of Sanatan Dharma worship documented elsewhere in this directory’s Trinidad and Tobago entries. No founding date, founders, or specific presiding deity could be confirmed for this temple in this pass, and it should not be assumed to share institutional history with any other Kailash-named temple elsewhere.
Sources
- historical record: Listed with its full street address ('10b Gonzales Circular Road, Temple Street, Belmont') in Wikipedia's 'List of Hindu temples in Trinidad and Tobago' article. Independently cross-checked against Wikipedia's 'Belmont, Port of Spain' article, which confirms Belmont as a real, historic neighborhood: 'Belmont, in north-east Port of Spain...is located at the foot of the Laventille Hills; it was the city's first suburb.' That neighborhood article does not itself mention the mandir, and no founding date, founders, or presiding deity could be confirmed for the temple specifically.
For review
- Named with a specific street address (on a street literally called 'Temple Street') in Wikipedia's dedicated temple list, and the Belmont neighborhood itself is independently confirmed as a real, historic Port of Spain suburb, but no founding date, founders, or presiding deity could be confirmed for this specific temple in this pass. This is the directory's only entry located within Port of Spain proper (the existing Trinidad entries — the Temple in the Sea and the Sri Dattatreya Yoga Centre — are both well outside the capital, near Carapichaima).