Other names EASSTemple State/province Nairobi Address Forest Rd, Nairobi, Kenya Phone +254 792 650666 | Country Kenya Location Nairobi District Parklands, Nairobi Primary deity Swaminarayan | |
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Proper name East Africa Satsang Swaminarayan Temple Bengali শ্রী স্বামীনারায়ণ মন্দির, নাইরোবি (ইএএসএস) Profiles | ||
The oldest Swaminarayan Organisation in Kenya, founded in Nairobi in 1932, as East Africa Satsang Mandal, to serve as a meeting point for all Swaminarayan Devotees in the Region. The East Africa Swaminarayan Satsang Temple, Nairobi was built in 1945. It was the first Swaminarayan temple to be built outside the Indian subcontinent as well as the first on the continent of Africa. This temple comes under the NarNarayan Dev Gadi of the Swaminarayan Sampraday.
History of this temple
Pictorial images of Swaminarayan were consecrated in India and were then shipped to Nairobi in 1945. In 1957, Acharya Maharajshree Tejendraprasad Pande (in his Pre-Acharya status) on behalf of his father (who was then Acharya), visited the temple for the first time and installed images of Swaminarayan in the ladies section.