MIRI, BORNEO, MALAYSIA, June 13, 2016 (The Borneo Post): More than 1,000 members of the Miri Hindu Society (MHS) will have a place to worship once their temple is completed by the end of this month. The Sri Kamini Thurga Iswari Amman Alayam Temple at Taman Tunku here will be the first Hindu temple here. MHS chairman Selvaraj Grapragasem said the US$244,000 was about 85 per cent completed. “The project started in April last year and is expected to be completed by the end of this month.
“We are very thankful, especially to the state government, organisations, and the public for their donations to make Miri’s first Hindu temple a reality,” he said when Assistant Minister of Tourism Datuk Lee Kim Shin visited the project site on Saturday. Lee said the support given by the government yet again showed it was concerned about the welfare of the minority and upheld the freedom of religion.The temple’s launching and Maha Kumbabishegam ceremony will take place on July 10, from 9am to 11am.