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Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Eldoret

Eldoret, Kenya

Pending reviewDocumented + legend
Deities
Swaminarayan
Traditions
vaishnava
Worship status
active
Darshan hours
Not documented in available sources; consult the local Hindu community/temple management for current timings before visiting.
Best time to visit
Diwali and Annakut (Hindu New Year) are the likeliest major observances given the temple's Swaminarayan dedication, though not independently confirmed for this specific temple.
How to reach
A BAPS-affiliated Swaminarayan temple's address is given by BAPS itself as Tagore Road, Eldoret, Kenya (see review_flags for an important, unresolved branch-affiliation question).

Location

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Eldoret, a major city in Kenya’s Rift Valley region with a long-established Gujarati Hindu trading community, is home to a tri-spired Shri Swaminarayan Mandir built in 2011 and affiliated with the NarNarayan Dev Gadi branch of the Swaminarayan sampradaya, per Wikipedia’s inventory of Swaminarayan temples worldwide.

No address or further institutional detail beyond its 2011 construction date and tri-spire architectural design was located during this research pass; it is documented here only via a bare listing in Wikipedia’s Swaminarayan temple inventory, but it fills a genuine geographic gap as the only currently documented Hindu temple in this directory for Eldoret.

Sources

  • historical record: Cross-checked against Wikipedia's 'List of Swaminarayan temples' article, which lists a 'Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Eldoret' affiliated with the NarNarayan Dev Gadi branch of the Swaminarayan sampradaya, built in 2011 with a tri-spire (shikhara) design.

For review

  • This temple is confirmed only via a bare table entry (name, city, sampradaya affiliation, 2011 construction year, and tri-spire design) in Wikipedia's 'List of Swaminarayan temples' article; no address or further institutional history was found this pass. It is the only currently documented Hindu temple entry for Eldoret in this directory.
  • IMPORTANT, UNRESOLVED CONTRADICTION found on a later verification pass: BAPS's own official website (swaminarayan.org/globalnetwork/africa) lists a 'Shri Swaminarayan Mandir (BAPS)' at Tagore Road, Eldoret - i.e. BAPS's own site identifies an Eldoret temple as BAPS-affiliated, not NarNarayan Dev Gadi as Wikipedia's table states. This mirrors the confirmed pattern of multiple distinct Swaminarayan-tradition temples per city seen elsewhere in Kenya (e.g. Nairobi has both an EASS temple and a separate BAPS temple, already documented as separate entries in this directory). It could not be determined this pass whether Eldoret similarly has two distinct Swaminarayan temples (one NarNarayan Dev Gadi built 2011, one older BAPS temple on Tagore Road) or whether one of the two source descriptions has an error; this entry retains its original Wikipedia-sourced NarNarayan Dev Gadi/2011 attribution as its documented core, with the BAPS/Tagore Road detail flagged as an unresolved lead rather than merged in as fact.