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Pura Tri Hita Karana

Berlin (Marzahn), Germany

Pending reviewDocumented history
Deities
Sanghyang Widhi Wasa (Supreme God in Balinese Hinduism)
Traditions
folk_regional
Worship status
active
Coordinates
52.5394723, 13.5777427
Darshan hours
Open during the regular seasonal opening hours of the Gärten der Welt park (roughly April-October, hours vary); the temple is used for periodic Balinese Hindu ceremonies by Berlin's Balinese community rather than daily darshan, so consult the park and the community directly for the current calendar before visiting.
Best time to visit
During Gärten der Welt's park season (spring through autumn), when the Balinese Garden itself is open; specific Balinese Hindu ceremony dates are set by the local community rather than published on a fixed public calendar.
How to reach
Inside the Balinese Garden section of Gärten der Welt park in Berlin-Marzahn; reachable via the U5 U-Bahn line to Kienberg / Gärten der Welt station, or via the IGA-Seilbahn cable car.

Location

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Unlike the diaspora community temples elsewhere in this directory, Pura Tri Hita Karana sits inside a public park: the Balinese Garden within Berlin’s Gärten der Welt (Gardens of the World) complex in the eastern district of Marzahn. The garden, one of several themed international gardens added to the park over the 2000s, opened on 18 December 2003 and includes a functioning Hindu temple built in the pura style of Bali, Indonesia — complete with the split candi bentar gateways, multi-tiered meru shrines, and thatched or tiled roofs characteristic of Balinese temple architecture. It is cited as one of only a handful of Balinese-style Hindu temples built outside Indonesia.

The temple serves Berlin’s small Balinese Hindu community, whose Agama Hindu Dharma tradition blends Shaiva philosophical roots with distinctly Balinese village, ancestral, and nature-worship practices — placing it outside the mainstream Sanskritic sects more typical of temples elsewhere in this directory. Because it functions inside a municipal garden rather than as a standalone community-run institution, its access, opening hours, and ceremonial calendar are tied to the park’s own seasonal operation, and detailed information about its founding congregation and maintaining organization is thinner in public sources than for most other temples in this directory.

Sources

  • historical record: Cross-checked against Wikipedia's 'Gärten der Welt' article (Pura Tri Hita Karana does not have a standalone Wikipedia article; it is documented within this one): confirms the Balinese Garden opened within the Erholungspark Marzahn / Gärten der Welt complex on 18 December 2003, designed by Indonesian architect I Putu Edy Semara with components largely prefabricated on Bali and assembled on site by Balinese workers, as part of the Berlin-Jakarta sister-city partnership, and describes Pura Tri Hita Karana within it as a functioning Hindu temple built in Balinese architectural style, noted as one of very few such temples built outside Indonesia.
  • historical record: Cross-checked against the park's own site, gaertenderwelt.de (Balinese Garden page): confirms two additional shrines were consecrated in a formal ceremony by priests flown in from Bali in 2012, and that the temple continues to be used and maintained by Berlin's resident Balinese community for cultural and religious practice, though no specific association name is given.
  • historical record: Coordinates re-verified against an OpenStreetMap Nominatim place-of-worship POI specifically tagged 'Pura Tri Hita Karana' (Eisenacher Straße, Wohngebiet Landsberger Tor, Marzahn, Berlin, 12685), which sits about 70 m east of the previously recorded point; the previous figure matched the general Gärten der Welt park coordinate rather than the Pura itself, and has been tightened accordingly.

For review

  • The main shrine's own consecration date is still not confirmed (only the 2003 garden opening and a 2012 consecration of two additional shrines are documented), and no specific Balinese community organization or priestly body responsible for building/maintaining the temple has been named in the sources found so far — these should be confirmed with a source specific to the temple itself before treating this entry as fully verified.