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Indian Cultural Centre, Cardiff
Founded by Gujaratis in Cardiff during the 1970s to socially and culturally support the growing numbers of Indian migrants in the city
Location(s)
Grangetown, Cardiff
About
The Indian Cultural Centre was founded in the early 1970s by Cardiff’s growing Gujarati community, many of whom came from Kutch. The precise date of its establishment is unknown. In 1978 the organization purchased a synagogue in Grangetown, Cardiff and converted it into the Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, the first and largest Hindu temple in Wales. A large space for Cardiff’s Hindu community became necessary as Indians who were expelled from East Africa settled in the city.
Shree Swaminarayan Temple, Cardiff
Sequeira, Samuel, 'Memory, History, Identity: Narratives of Partition, Migration, and Settlement among South Asian Communities of South Wales', unpublished PhD Thesis (Cardiff University, 2016)
Swaminarayan Mandir, 'About Us', https://www.swaminarayan.wales/about-us/history
Image credit
© Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1930s – present
