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[[File:Om symbol.svg|thumb|The "Om" symbol in [[Devanagari]]]]{{Hinduism by country}}
[[File:Hamm Hindutempel Sri-Kamadchi-Ampal Gopuram 1.jpg|right|thumb|Sri Kamakshi Amman temple in [[Hamm]] is the largest Hindu temple in Germany]]

[[Hinduism]] is a minority religion in [[Germany]]. It is practised by 0.1% of the population of Germany.<ref>https://fowid.de/meldung/religionszugehoerigkeiten-deutschland-2017</ref>
[[File:Sri Sithi Vinayagar.jpg|thumb]]

==Demographics==
From the 1950s, Indian Hindus were migrating to Germany. Since the 1970s, Tamils from [[Sri Lanka]] arrived as asylum seekers to Germany (Most of them were Hindus). In 2000, there were 90,000 Hindus in Germany.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.baumann-martin.de/london-paper.htm|title=Disputed Space for Beloved Goddesses|author=Martin Baumann|date=April 2001|publisher=Martin Baumann(2001 International Conference at LSE)|access-date=24 July 2012}}</ref>
In 2007, there were 6,000 Hindus in Berlin.<ref>{{cite news|title=Construction Starts on Berlin's First Hindu Temple|url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/a-home-for-ganesha-construction-starts-on-berlin-s-first-hindu-temple-a-515011.html|newspaper=Spiegel Online|date=11 February 2007|location=Germany}}</ref> In 2009, around 5,000 Hindus lived in [[Lower Saxony]].<ref>{{cite news|title=A New Hindu Temple for Germany|url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/fire-ceremony-in-hanover-a-new-hindu-temple-for-germany-a-614948.html|newspaper=Spiegel Online|date=23 March 2009|location=Germany}}</ref>

According to the statistics of REMID,<ref>https://www.remid.de/info_zahlen/hinduismus/</ref> in 2011 there were an estimated 130,000 Hindus in Germany. About 42,000–45,000 are [[Sri Lankan Tamils]]; 60,000–80,000 are Indian; 7,500+ are Whites and others; and some 7,000 - 10,000 are Afghan Hindus.

==ISKCON==
[[File:Sacinandana Swami at Santiago de Compostela.JPG|thumb|[[Sacinandana Swami]] is a famous ISKCON sannyasi]]
The first [[International Society for Krishna Consciousness|Hare Krishna]] temple in Germany was built 1970 in [[Hamburg]]. The ISKCON guru [[Sacinandana Swami]] translated the [[Bhagavad Gita]] into German.<ref name = Kay2008 >{{Harvnb|Ray|2008|p=}}</ref>

==Balinese Hinduism==
{{see|Balinese Hinduism}}
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[[Pura Tri Hita Karana]]
There are about 700 Balinese Hindu families<ref>https://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=5458</ref> living in Germany, with the one temple located in [[Hamburg]] in front of the [[Museum of Ethnology, Hamburg]] and the second, [[Pura Tri Hita Karana]] located in [[Erholungspark Marzahn]], Berlin.<ref>http://balinesehome.blogspot.in/2008/09/first-temple-in-hamburg-germany.html</ref><ref>http://blog.baliwww.com/religion/1751</ref>
Pura Tri Hita Karana is a functioning Hindu temple located in the Balinese Garden of the park. It is one of the few Hindu temples of Balinese architecture built outside Indonesia.

==Famous German Hindus==

*[[Claudia Ciesla]]
*[[Walther Eidlitz]]
*[[Hansadutta Swami]]
*[[Mother Meera]]
*[[Siva Sri Paskarakurukkal]]
*[[Mathias Rust]]
*[[Sadananda]]
*[[Sacinandana Swami]]

==See also==
* [[List of Hindu temples in Germany]]
* [[Indians in Germany]]
* [[Hinduism in Vietnam]]
* [[Hindu eschatology]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Cite news |title=Hindus opposing EU swastika ban |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6269627.stm |newspaper=[[BBC News]] |date=17 January 2007}}

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