{"id":10237,"date":"2011-06-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/06\/21\/in-palermo-mauritian-hindus-create-a-temple-that-is-a-hit\/"},"modified":"2011-06-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T12:00:00","slug":"in-palermo-mauritian-hindus-create-a-temple-that-is-a-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/06\/21\/in-palermo-mauritian-hindus-create-a-temple-that-is-a-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"In Palermo, Mauritian Hindus Create a Temple That is a Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/palermo.repubblica.it\/cronaca\/2011\/05\/26\/news\/un_tempio_fai-da-te_per_i_mauriziani-16795169\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PALERMO, ITALY, May 26, 2011: The former garage space on Imperatore Federico street, which was converted into a place of worship by the Hindus in Palermo, is suffering the stress of success. Too many people are coming to worship!<\/p>\n<p>So Viky Sahy, after searching in vain for a rental space, has decided to set up a temple for the Mauritian community in his own home in the heart of the Ballaro district of Palermo. &#8220;In the garage temple we used for so many years,&#8221; says 43 year old Viky, &#8220;there were too many communities competing for time for prayer. Apart from us Mauritians, the Shiv Shakti temple is used by Sri Lankans and Bengali Hindus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His new temple will not only be used as a place of worship. &#8220;We also have meetings for kids,&#8221; Viky said, &#8220;to keep alive our culture and our traditions, especially our children who are born and grow up here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the future, the idea is to create a religious association that brings together all the Mauritian Hindus who began to immigrate into Palermo in the eighties and now numbers about a thousand people.<\/p>\n<p>[HPI note: You can know more about the Shiv Shakti Mandir Palermo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Shiv-Shakti-Mandir-Palermo\/163805986985827\">here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source PALERMO, ITALY, May 26, 2011: The former garage space on Imperatore Federico street, which was converted into a place,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}