“We started in a terrace house back in 1971, when all the Asians were expelled from Uganda – we got bigger and bigger, and now we are many,” Dhiren Kanabar said of the Shree Hindu temple and community centre in Leicester, where he works.
The building at St Barnabas Road is testament to the growth and resilience of the city’s Gujarati community, who collected money, in their earliest days in the UK, to move from a makeshift place of worship – a family home in Cromford Street – to one of the first purpose-built Hindu temples in the UK.
