Shree Laxmi Narayan Temple
Burbank, Brisbane, Australia
Also known as: Shree Laxmi Narayan Mandir
- Deities
- Lakshmi, Vishnu (Narayan)
- Traditions
- vaishnava
- Worship status
- active
- Darshan hours
- Varies by season and festival calendar; consult the temple's own trust/management for the current daily schedule before visiting.
- Best time to visit
- Year-round; Diwali is likely the temple's principal annual festival given its Lakshmi-Narayan dedication, though this is not independently confirmed.
- How to reach
- In the Burbank suburb south of Brisbane, Queensland; specific street address not confirmed in the sources consulted this pass — consult the temple's own management for current directions.
Location
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Shree Laxmi Narayan Temple serves the Hindu community of Burbank, a suburb south of Brisbane, Queensland, dedicated to Lakshmi and Narayan (Vishnu) — a paired form emphasizing prosperity and preservation central to Vaishnava household worship. The temple gained brief national attention in Australia on 4 March 2023, when its boundary wall was vandalized in an incident temple president Satinder Shukla and devotees reported to Queensland Police that morning; Australian Hindu-community media coverage attributed the incident to pro-Khalistan extremists as part of a wider pattern of attacks on Hindu temples and symbols across Australia around that period, including a separate reported threat against an unnamed “prominent” Brisbane temple the previous month.
Beyond this documented incident, detailed institutional history for the temple — its founding date, architectural style, and regular festival calendar — is not confirmed in the sources consulted this pass, so this entry is recorded as pending further verification.
Sources
- historical record: Cross-checked against a mainstream Indian-Australian news report (theaustraliatoday.com.au, 4 March 2023) covering a vandalism incident at the temple: confirms the temple's name as 'Shree Laxmi Narayan Temple,' its location in the Burbank suburb south of Brisbane, and quotes temple president Satinder Shukla describing vandalism of the temple's boundary wall on the morning of 4 March 2023, attributed by the report to pro-Khalistan extremists; Queensland Police were notified and responded.
- historical record: Cross-checked against Wikipedia's 'Hinduism in Australia' article, which independently references this temple among Queensland's Hindu temples and separately notes a reported threat against 'a prominent Hindu temple in Brisbane' around Mahashivratri in February 2023, without confirming which Brisbane temple that threat targeted.
For review
- Confirmed as a real, currently-operating temple via a mainstream news report about a March 2023 vandalism incident (which independently establishes its name, suburb, and an office-bearer's name), but its founding date, exact street address, architectural style, and regular festival calendar were not independently confirmed this pass — a secondary travel-blog source (not used as a citation here) suggested a 2004 founding, which could not be corroborated.