{"id":10978,"date":"2012-04-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/04\/26\/new-temple-in-fiji-brings-happiness-and-blessings-in-hard-times\/"},"modified":"2012-04-26T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T12:00:00","slug":"new-temple-in-fiji-brings-happiness-and-blessings-in-hard-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/04\/26\/new-temple-in-fiji-brings-happiness-and-blessings-in-hard-times\/","title":{"rendered":"New Temple in Fiji Brings Happiness and Blessings in Hard Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HPI<\/p>\n<p>MALOLO, FIJI, April 2012 (by Shalendra Prasad): Bad weather could not stop Hindu devotees from witnessing the opening of their new temple within the Malolo Sangam Temple premises on Monday, April 16.<\/p>\n<p>The brand new temple is devoted to Goddess &#8216;Karumari Amman&#8217; who is believed to bring good luck and fulfill the good wishes of every devotee. The $250,000 temple is the second one to be constructed at the property and sits adjacent to a Lord Vishnu temple constructed recently.<\/p>\n<p>According to Malolo Sangam Temple president Karna Waddi Raju, a week-long celebration was observed to mark the opening of the new temple which was purely constructed by local builders and decorated by local painters and sculptors.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Raju said the temple committee and people of Malolo, a highly populated settlement in the tourism town of Nadi, are overwhelmed with the generosity of various donors which enabled the committee to complete the works as expected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People have braved bad weather and hardships of the recent floods to be part of the week-long celebrations and we pray to God to help us during such hard times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The temple which hosts various religious and cultural activities throughout the year is well known for its fire walking ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HPI MALOLO, FIJI, April 2012 (by Shalendra Prasad): Bad weather could not stop Hindu devotees from witnessing the opening of,&#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-10978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978","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=10978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}