Vishnu Mandir
Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
- Deities
- Vishnu, Balaji (Venkateswara), Narsimha, Shiva, Radha Krishna, Hanuman
- Traditions
- vaishnava, shaiva
- Worship status
- active
- Darshan hours
- Monday-Sunday except Wednesday: 7:30am-8:00pm; Wednesday: 7:30am-7:30pm. Confirmed via the temple's own website; consult it directly for any holiday exceptions before visiting.
- Best time to visit
- Year-round; Diwali and other major Hindu festivals are observed with large community gatherings.
- How to reach
- At 8640 Yonge Street, Richmond Hill, Ontario, just north of Toronto; reachable by car or public transit.
Location
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Vishnu Mandir is a large Hindu temple complex on Yonge Street in Richmond Hill, just north of Toronto, operated by the Voice of Vedas Cultural Sabha alongside affiliated community institutions on the same property, including a school and cultural museum. Its central shrines are dedicated to Vishnu and his forms (Balaji/Venkateswara and Narsimha) alongside Shiva, Radha-Krishna, and Hanuman, reflecting the pan-Hindu, multi-deity worship style common among many temples serving the Indo-Caribbean and broader South Asian diaspora in the Greater Toronto Area. Beyond its role as a place of daily worship, the temple has served as a venue for interfaith and cultural programming for the region’s Hindu community; a precise founding date could not be independently confirmed in this pass and should be verified against additional sources before being treated as settled.
Sources
- historical record: Confirmed via the temple's own website (vishnumandir.com), which gives its current address and lists the deities enshrined (Vishnu, Balaji, Narsimha, Shiv Ji, Radha-Krishna, Hanuman) and describes it as operated by the Voice of Vedas Cultural Sabha, which also runs affiliated educational and community facilities on the same grounds. Its existence and general Toronto-area location are corroborated by Wikipedia's 'List of Hindu temples in Canada,' which lists 'Vishnu Mandir — Richmond Hill'; that article gives no further narrative detail.
- historical record: Re-checked the live vishnumandir.com this pass (previously reported as inaccessible): confirms current daily darshan hours as Monday-Sunday except Wednesday, 7:30am-8:00pm, and Wednesday 7:30am-7:30pm, and phone contact +1 905-886-1724; the site still gives no specific founding/establishment date, so that portion of the review flag stands.
For review
- No dedicated secondary source (e.g., a Wikipedia article) describing this temple's founding history, founder, or exact establishment date was found in this pass. The temple's own website's copyright notice ('© 1998 – 2026') suggests it may have been established around 1998, but this is not confirmed by any independent historical source and should be treated as approximate only.