Babs Shree Swaminarayan Mandir Nairobi is a Hindu temple, although there were temples in Africa before that, it is the first traditional Hindu temple made of stone and marble to be built in the African continent, it was built by Babs Shree Swaminarayan Sanstha, a global Hindu organization belonging to the faith The Hindu Swaminarayan was inaugurated on August 29, 1999 by Pramukh Swami Maharaj, the spiritual leader of the Babs Shree Swaminarayan Sanstha.