page_title: Religion in England
section_title: Hinduism
hierarchical_section_title: Religion in England / Religions / Indian religions / Hinduism
caption_attribution_description: Neasden Temple - Shree Swaminarayan Hindu Mandir, London, UK.
context_page_description: The Church of England is the established state church in England, whose supreme governor is the monarch. Other Christian traditions in England include Roman Catholicism, Methodism and the Baptists. After Christianity, the religions with the most adherents are Hinduism, Sikhism, Neopaganism, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, and the Bahá'í Faith. There are also organisations promoting irreligion, including humanism and atheism.
  Many of England's most notable buildings and monuments are religious in nature: Stonehenge, Westminster Abbey, Canterbury Cathedral and St Paul's Cathedral. The festivals of Christmas and Easter are widely celebrated in the country.
context_section_description: Early Hindus in England were mostly students during the 19th century. There have been three waves of migration of Hindus to England since then.
  Before India's Independence in 1947, Hindu migration was minuscule and largely temporary. The second wave of Hindu migration occurred in the 1970s after the expulsion of Gujarati Hindus from Uganda. Initially, Hindu immigration was limited to Punjabi and Gujarati Hindus, but, by 2000, small Hindu communities of every ethnicity could be found in England. England is also host to a large immigrant community of Sri Lankan Hindus who are mostly Tamils. The last wave of migration of Hindus has been taking place since the 1990s with refugees from Sri Lanka and professionals from India.
  However, there is becoming an increasing number of English Western Hindus in England, who have either converted from another faith or been an English Hindu from birth.
  According to United Kingdom's Office of National Statistics 2011, of all ethnic minorities in Britain, the British Hindus had the highest rate of economic activity. Hindus also have the least prison population (less than 0.5% of the total Prison population in Britain) compared to 48% for Christians and 15% for Muslims.
caption: BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in London, United Kingdom is the largest Hindu temple in England.
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