{"id":11693,"date":"2006-08-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/08\/07\/us-sikh-group-wins-right-to-build-gurudwara\/"},"modified":"2006-08-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-07T12:00:00","slug":"us-sikh-group-wins-right-to-build-gurudwara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/08\/07\/us-sikh-group-wins-right-to-build-gurudwara\/","title":{"rendered":"US Sikh Group Wins Right to Build Gurudwara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/specials.rediff.com\/news\/2006\/aug\/05sikh.htm\">specials.rediff.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, August 7, 2006: In a major victory for Sikhs in the United States, a San Francisco court has held that the community has the right to build a gurudwara (Sikh place of worship) in their neighborhood. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has allowed a Sikh congregation to construct a gurudwara on land allotted for agriculture in Sutter county. The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a nonprofit law firm known for protecting the free expression of religious traditions, had filed an amicus curiae brief in support of the community. &#8220;This resounding victory for the Sikh group has nationwide implications for a wide range of cases dealing with religious land interests and it will echo especially loudly in California,&#8221; firm spokesman Jared N Leland said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>specials.rediff.com SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, August 7, 2006: In a major victory for Sikhs in the United States, a San Francisco,&#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-11693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693","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=11693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}