{"id":11807,"date":"2006-10-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/10\/01\/michigan-temple-burnt-to-the-ground\/"},"modified":"2006-10-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-01T12:00:00","slug":"michigan-temple-burnt-to-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/10\/01\/michigan-temple-burnt-to-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Temple Burnt To The Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\">Detroit Free Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">HAMTRAMCK, MICHIGAN,  August 22, 2006: (HPI note: Our thanks to a reader who pointed out this story, which had been missed at the time.) Members are still in shock and left scrambling for a place to worship after a fire burned the Hamtramck Bangladesh Hindu Temple to the ground. A steady stream of worshippers flocked to the charred remains of the 3-year-old temple Wednesday afternoon. Only two walls remain after an all-night fire that struck as members prepared for a religious festival in September. &#8220;It&#8217;s more than a temple,&#8221; said Utpal Dutta, 50, of Troy. &#8220;It&#8217;s a people gathering place. It&#8217;s all the people coming together. I feel very sad. The people put so much effort into building this thing, and now it&#8217;s down the drain.&#8221; Federal investigators said it may take more than a week to know what sparked the blaze that started about 11:15 p.m. Tuesday and took eight hours to control. FBI and U.S. Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Department agents joined the probe. &#8220;We don&#8217;t have any clues yet,&#8221; said Hamtramck Fire Chief James Szafarczyk. &#8220;I hope we can catch the person, and if it wasn&#8217;t a person, what caused this. This could be just an accidental fire.&#8221; The Bangaladesh Hindu Temple has a membership of about 200 people. Szafarczyk, temple members and others in the neighborhood said there have been no reported problems in the area. A $5,000 reward is being offered by the Michigan Arson Prevention Committee to anyone with information about the fire.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Free Press HAMTRAMCK, MICHIGAN, August 22, 2006: (HPI note: Our thanks to a reader who pointed out this story,,&#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-11807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807","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=11807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}