Berlin: Following several days of festivities and Mahakumbhabhishekam, the Sri Ganesha Temple in Berlin’s Neukolln opened on June 7, Sunday. The temple, which is the largest in Europe is located on the edge of the Hasenheide park, the seventeen-meter-high tower. Devotees could be seen enjoying themselves at the spot with music and Malakamba sports being played.
“I feel so proud like our, you know, the big Indian temple, Ganesha temple is inaugurating today. So, I feel really proud and happy to see our Indian sports, especially Malakamba. It’s our ancient Indian sports. So, I feel so proud and very happy”, a devotee said. “This is for the newcomers from India, the students, the IT workers. Together with the German population, not just alone, together with happy dancing and music celebrations”, another devotee added.
#WATCH | Berlin, Germany: Following several days of festivities, the Sri Ganesha Temple in Berlin’s Neukölln opened on Sunday. Located on the edge of the Hasenheide park, the seventeen-meter-high tower—adorned with hundreds of sculptures and reliefs—is recognizable as part of a… pic.twitter.com/HkcPbXoosB
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The temple was founded on September 24, 2005 and was consecrated on June 7, 2026. Twenty-one years of temple construction was funded entirely by donations and seva. Today, one of the largest Hindu temples in Europe, the Sri Ganesha Hindu Temple, is run by ten volunteer board members and three pujaris, recognised as a registered non-profit by the Finanzamt fur Korperschaften.
Doors at Hasenheide 106 open every day from 4 PM to 6 PM. Aarti takes place in the morning and evening. The temple is open to every Hindu current such as Vaishnava, Shaiva, Shakta, Smarta and to anyone who walks in: Berlin families, students, mixed-faith couples, colleagues from the office next door, school groups on open days, said a statement from the temple.
In 2015, the first Gopuram tower rose. The Black granite from Tamil Nadu, hand-carved by Indian stonemasons, began to glow against the Hasenheide sky. In Britz, the smaller Sri-Mayurapathy-Murugan-tempel had opened the year before as Berlin’s first Hindu temple.
From June 3 to 7 2026, the five-day festival took place including Mahakumbhabhishekam. On June 7, water from the Ganges and from Berlin is poured by crane onto the spire of the 17-metre vimana. Thus, one of Europe’s largest Hindu temples opens its doors to the devotees resonating India’s cultural spirit, Dharmic values and civilisational essence to the people across globe.
(With Inputs from ANI)
