Radha Krishna Mandir, Amsterdam Nieuw-West
Amsterdam (Nieuw-West), Netherlands
- Deities
- Radha Krishna
- Traditions
- vaishnava
- Worship status
- active
- Address
- Saaftingestraat 310, 1069 BW Amsterdam (De Punt neighbourhood, Osdorp/Slotervaart area)
- Coordinates
- 52.3613914, 4.7899982
- Darshan hours
- Varies; consult the temple directly for the current schedule before visiting.
- Best time to visit
- Janmashtami and other major Vaishnava festivals, consistent with other Hindustani community temples in the Netherlands; confirm the current calendar with the temple.
- How to reach
- In the Nieuw-West borough of Amsterdam, Netherlands; reachable by Amsterdam public transport.
Location
Open in Google MapsThe Radha Krishna Mandir in Amsterdam’s Nieuw-West borough is one of the temples serving the Netherlands’ large Hindustani (Indo-Surinamese) Hindu community, distinct from the already-documented ISKCON Amsterdam (Hare Krishna Temple) elsewhere in the city. Wikipedia’s overview of Hinduism in the Netherlands notes that a 2003 study estimated the country’s Indo-Surinamese Hindu population at around 130,000 people, served nationwide by an estimated fifty temples and 250 priests — a far larger and more dispersed network of community worship than the country’s handful of internationally affiliated organizations such as ISKCON or BAPS might suggest on their own.
This mandir, dedicated to Radha Krishna, represents that wider Hindustani community temple tradition, which took root in the Netherlands following large-scale Surinamese migration after Suriname’s 1975 independence from Dutch colonial rule. Beyond its name, district, and community context, further detail on the temple’s founding date, address, and architecture could not be confirmed in the source available for this entry; fuller documentation would need to be confirmed directly with the temple or the wider Hindustani community organizations in Amsterdam.
Sources
- historical record: Cross-checked against Wikipedia's 'Hinduism in the Netherlands' article, which identifies a Radha Krishna Mandir in Amsterdam Nieuw-West (illustrated with a photograph in the source article) as one of the Hindustani (Indo-Surinamese) community's Hindu temples in the Netherlands; the same article notes a 2003 study estimating roughly 130,000 Indo-Surinamese Hindus in the country served by an estimated fifty temples and 250 priests nationwide.
- historical record: Wave 2 follow-up: identified more specifically via Wikipedia's 'List of Hindu temples outside India' as Radha Krishna Mandir Amsterdam, Saaftingestraat 310, 1069 BW Amsterdam, in the 'De Punt' neighbourhood of the Osdorp/Slotervaart part of Amsterdam Nieuw-West. Coordinates found via an OpenStreetMap Nominatim exact house-number match, though the underlying OSM node is tagged only generically as a house rather than specifically as a place of worship, so this should be treated as moderate-to-high rather than fully certain confidence.
For review
- No founding date, contact details, darshan hours, or festival calendar could be found for this specific temple; the underlying OSM coordinate match is address-based rather than confirmed via a place-of-worship-tagged point. This temple is organizationally distinct from the already-documented ISKCON Amsterdam (Hare Krishna Temple), both being Radha Krishna-dedicated Vaishnava temples in Amsterdam but serving different institutional traditions (Hindustani/Indo-Surinamese community temple versus ISKCON/Gaudiya Vaishnava).