{"id":12382,"date":"2007-06-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/06\/06\/pramukh-swami-to-visit-north-america-and-inaugurate-two-new-temples\/"},"modified":"2007-06-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T12:00:00","slug":"pramukh-swami-to-visit-north-america-and-inaugurate-two-new-temples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/06\/06\/pramukh-swami-to-visit-north-america-and-inaugurate-two-new-temples\/","title":{"rendered":"Pramukh Swami to Visit North America and Inaugurate Two New Temples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/World\/The_United_States\/New_Hindu_temples_in_Atlanta_Toronto\/articleshow\/2095143.cms\">timesofindia.indiatimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">UNITED STATES AND CANADA, June 4, 2007: Pramukh Swami Maharaj, 85 and head of the Gujarat based Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS), is visiting the US and Canada from June 10 to September 28 to mark the centenary celebrations of the organization. During his visit, two magnificent new temples depicting Indian heritage and civilization will be inaugurated in Atlanta in the United States and Toronto in Canada. The temples to be inaugurated have been constructed using traditions that date back to thousands of years. They include a prayer hall, cultural arena and exhibits on the contributions of Indian civilization to the world in areas such as science, mathematics, medicine, art and language. BAPS temples in the US and Canada are planning to host events during Pramukh Swami&#8217;s presence. According to his itinerary, Pramukh Swami will visit Chicago, Houston, Toronto, New Jersey, Atlanta, Dallas, San Jose, Los Angeles and New York. &#8220;The events will showcase the diverse cultural, social and spiritual activities of BAPS that have flourished under the leadership of Pramukh Swami,&#8221; BAPS spokesperson Harish Patel said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>timesofindia.indiatimes.com UNITED STATES AND CANADA, June 4, 2007: Pramukh Swami Maharaj, 85 and head of the Gujarat based Bochasanwasi Shri,&#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-12382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12382","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=12382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}