Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Brighton
Portslade, Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom
- Deities
- Swaminarayan
- Traditions
- vaishnava
- Worship status
- active
- Address
- 79a Trafalgar Road, Portslade, Brighton and Hove, BN41 1XD
- Coordinates
- 50.8369, -0.2163
- Darshan hours
- Varies; consult the temple/ISSO directly for the current schedule before visiting.
- Best time to visit
- Diwali and other major Swaminarayan-tradition festivals; confirm the current calendar with the temple.
- How to reach
- In Portslade, part of Brighton and Hove, on the south coast of England; reachable via Portslade railway station.
Location
Open in Google MapsInaugurated on 19 September 1999, the Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Portslade, part of Brighton and Hove on England’s south coast, was the tenth Swaminarayan temple to open in the United Kingdom, under the International Swaminarayan Satsang Organisation (ISSO) — a branch of the Swaminarayan Sampraday distinct from both the BAPS organization behind Neasden’s mandir and the NarNarayan Dev Gadi branch behind the Cardiff and East London mandirs also documented in this directory.
The temple’s murti pratishtha (deity installation) ceremony was performed by Acharya Maharajshree Tejendraprasad Pande and drew a notably civic guest list for a provincial UK temple opening: the local Member of Parliament, the Mayor of Brighton, and the Indian High Commissioner all attended, reflecting the occasion’s significance both to the local Gujarati Hindu community and to Brighton’s wider civic life. Beyond these founding details, the Wikipedia source available for this entry is only a brief stub, leaving the temple’s later history, exact address, and architectural character undocumented in the sources consulted here.
Sources
- historical record: Cross-checked against Wikipedia's stub article 'Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Brighton': confirms the temple was inaugurated on 19 September 1999 as the 10th Swaminarayan temple to open in the United Kingdom, under the International Swaminarayan Satsang Organisation (ISSO); the murti pratishtha (deity installation) ceremony was performed by Acharya Maharajshree Tejendraprasad Pande and was attended by the local Member of Parliament, the Mayor of Brighton, and the Indian High Commissioner.
- historical record: Wave 2 follow-up: address and coordinates added via an OpenStreetMap Nominatim name search for 'Swaminarayan,' which resolves to 'Shree Swaminarayan Temple,' 79a Trafalgar Road, Portslade, matching Wikipedia's own infobox coordinates (50.8369, -0.2163) to within a few metres. Wikipedia's own citation for the 1999 opening is an Indian Express article ('Swaminarayan temple opened,' 6 Oct 1999), which could not be independently fetched in this pass and so remains a secondary rather than independently verified citation.
For review
- The Wikipedia source for this entry remains a short stub article; it does not describe the building's architecture or list specific deity images beyond the general Swaminarayan dedication, and the underlying 1999 Indian Express source for the opening could not be independently fetched to fully corroborate it.