diff --git a/sentence_transformers/util.py b/sentence_transformers/util.py
index 6619318f1..945b808b2 100644
--- a/sentence_transformers/util.py
+++ b/sentence_transformers/util.py
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ def import_from_string(dotted_path):
         raise ImportError(msg)
 
 
-def community_detection(embeddings, threshold=0.75, min_community_size=10, batch_size=1024):
+def community_detection(embeddings, threshold=0.75, min_community_size=10, batch_size=1024, show_progress_bar=False):
     """
     Function for Fast Community Detection
     Finds in the embeddings all communities, i.e. embeddings that are close (closer than threshold).
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ def community_detection(embeddings, threshold=0.75, min_community_size=10, batch
     min_community_size = min(min_community_size, len(embeddings))
     sort_max_size = min(max(2 * min_community_size, 50), len(embeddings))
 
-    for start_idx in range(0, len(embeddings), batch_size):
+    for start_idx in tqdm(range(0, len(embeddings), batch_size), desc="Finding clusters", disable=not show_progress_bar):
         # Compute cosine similarity scores
         cos_scores = cos_sim(embeddings[start_idx:start_idx + batch_size], embeddings)