Hinduism in Guadeloupe

According to a statistics data, Hinduism is practised by 0.5% of the people in Guadeloupe.

[1] There are a sizeable number of Hindu Tamil temples that are located in Basse-Terre, and other regions.

[2] There is a Hindu temple in dravidian style in Changy in Basse Terre[3] and another one in Gaschet in Grande-Terre[4] Although the Indo-Guadeloupeans constitute about 14% of the Guadeloupe,[5] only some of them are still Hindus.

Ernest Moutoussamy, first Indo-Guadelopean member of the French Parliament said in an interview that "Though we are Catholics, we still have images of Hindu gods at home.

The Institut du Monde Indien (Institute for the study of the Indian world) was begun by Jacques Sidambarom, Jean-Claude Petapermal and Roland Gopy to resuscitate Hindu rituals and connect Hindus in Trinidad and Tobago, Reunion, Pondicherry and Paris.