Lord Krishna Temple

Named and pictured, but not otherwise described, in Wikipedia’s overview of the Indian community in Zambia, the Lord Krishna Temple in Lusaka serves the country’s small Hindu community, most of whom descend from Gujarati traders who began arriving in what was then British North-Eastern Rhodesia from 1905 onward. The photograph identifying the temple was taken in Lusaka in September 2015, per the image’s Wikimedia Commons file metadata, establishing that it was already an active place of worship by then.

Zambia’s Hindu community is organized under the Hindu Association of Zambia, one of fourteen non-Christian “mother body” religious organizations that Wikipedia’s “Religion in Zambia” article says the Zambian government required religious groups to affiliate with as of 2021; that same article separately captions an image of a “Hindu temple and mosque in Lusaka Province,” a general corroboration of Hindu temple presence in the capital, though it does not confirm this is the same building as the Lord Krishna Temple or add further detail. No source located this pass gives a founding date, founder, or detailed institutional history for the temple itself; what can be confirmed is limited to its name, its dedication to Krishna, its location in the Zambian capital, and its existence by 2015.