Sri Sri Radha Radhanath Temple
Chatsworth, Durban, South Africa
- Deities
- Radha Krishna
- Traditions
- vaishnava
- Worship status
- active
- Coordinates
- -29.9167, 30.8833
- Darshan hours
- Varies by temple and season; consult the temple's own website for the current daily schedule before visiting.
- Best time to visit
- Janmashtami (Aug/Sep) draws the largest crowds; the temple's annual Ratha Yatra in Durban is also a notable public event.
- How to reach
- In Chatsworth, a suburb of Durban with a large Indian-origin population; reachable by road from central Durban.
- Festivals
- Janmashtami (August/September), Ratha Yatra (Durban) (varies)
- Associated saints
- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Location
Open in Google MapsA center of Gaudiya Vaishnava (Hare Krishna) worship serving South Africa’s large Indian-origin community, itself descended largely from 19th-century indentured laborers (see the separate Sri Siva Soobramaniar Temple entry in this directory for that broader community history), the Sri Sri Radha Radhanath Temple is named as a landmark of Chatsworth in Wikipedia’s own article on the suburb, which cites the temple’s website (iskcondurban.net) as its source. ISKCON established a presence in South Africa in the 1970s-80s, and Durban’s annual Ratha Yatra festival, organized by the local ISKCON community, has grown into one of the city’s notable public events - ISKCON’s own international news network (dandavats.com) has reported the festival distributing over 10,000 plates of prasadam (sanctified food) a day across a multi-day celebration in recent years, and continues to cover the temple’s activities as an active, ongoing institution.
Beyond its name, general Chatsworth location, and confirmed ongoing activity, this temple’s precise founding date, founders, and exact address were not located during this research pass; the temple’s own website, which would likely hold that detail, was unreachable (returning server errors) at the time of verification.
Sources
- historical record: Compiled from general knowledge of ISKCON's presence in South Africa; not independently confirmed via a dedicated live source in this session (no accessible Wikipedia article found; repeated fetch attempts for South Africa-specific ISKCON sources were unsuccessful).
- historical record: Re-verified and substantially strengthened on a later pass: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatsworth,_Durban lists 'Sri Sri Radha Radhanath Temple (Hare Krishna Temple)' by exact name among the suburb's notable landmarks, citing the temple's own website (iskcondurban.net) as its source - the first independent (non-fabricated) confirmation of this temple's name found. That website could not itself be fetched this pass (it returned repeated HTTP 500 errors, suggesting a site outage rather than a real gap in sourcing). Separately, dandavats.com (ISKCON's own international news network) independently corroborates the temple as a real, currently active institution: dated articles include 'Durban Rathayatra Festival 2025' (19 Apr 2025), a 2021 'NEWS from ISKCON Durban' piece discussing pandemic-era struggles, and 2020 coverage of the temple's Ratha Yatra prasadam distribution (over 10,000 plates/day for 4 days) and its 'Sri Sri Radha Radhanath Temple Operations' newsletters. A separate, uncited sentence in the same Chatsworth Wikipedia article mentions Chatsworth as home to 'the Temple of Understanding - a Hindu temple,' but that phrase is wikilinked to an unrelated New York interfaith organization founded in 1960, indicating this is very likely a Wikipedia editing error rather than evidence of a second, distinct temple; it should not be read as naming a different institution from the one documented here.
For review
- The temple's existence, name, and ongoing active operation are now independently corroborated by two real sources (Wikipedia's 'Chatsworth, Durban' article and ISKCON's own dandavats.com news network), resolving the original 'compiled from general knowledge' concern. However, its precise founding date, founder(s), and exact address remain unconfirmed: the temple's own website (iskcondurban.net), which Wikipedia cites as its source, returned server errors on every fetch attempt this pass and could not be consulted directly.