{"id":12500,"date":"2007-07-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/07\/24\/400-year-old-kulwagishuri-temple-in-south-kashmir-reopens-after-15-years-of-closure\/"},"modified":"2007-07-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T12:00:00","slug":"400-year-old-kulwagishuri-temple-in-south-kashmir-reopens-after-15-years-of-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/07\/24\/400-year-old-kulwagishuri-temple-in-south-kashmir-reopens-after-15-years-of-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"400-Year-Old Kulwagishuri Temple in South Kashmir Reopens After 15 Years of Closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hindu.com\/thehindu\/holnus\/004200707230336.htm\">www.hindu.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">SRINAGAR, KASHMIR, July 22, 2007: Torched by Islamic militants 15 years ago, the 400-year-old Kulwagishuri temple in Kulgam town of south Kashmir on Sunday was opened to devotees. Thousands of Hindus and Muslims attended the ceremony amid tight security. Over 2,000 Kashmir Pundits, who arrived here from several parts of the country and even the US and UK, took part in a maha yagya and offered prayers at the temple. The temple has been closed since warfare forced Hindu residents to flee the Valley in 1999. &#8220;It was after 17 years that the ancient temple was thrown open to Kashmiri Pundits who thronged the shrine in large numbers,&#8221; said All Party Migrant Coordination Committee (APMCC) chairman, Vinood Pandit.<\/p>\n<p>An important Vaishnavite shrine, it suffered damage in 1992 when militants set it afire. Mata Kulwagishuri Prabandik committee (MKPC) in coordination with APMCC undertook renovation of the temple complex, MKPC president Maheshwar Nath Zutshi said. Approximately 3,000 Muslims took part in the temple reopening function and celebrated the day with their Hindu brethren. &#8220;It has served as a platform for interaction between Muslims and Hindus,&#8221; MLA Raman Mattoo said. He said such moves will help bridge the gulf between the two communities and pave the pave for the restoration of peace.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.hindu.com SRINAGAR, KASHMIR, July 22, 2007: Torched by Islamic militants 15 years ago, the 400-year-old Kulwagishuri temple in Kulgam town,&#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-12500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12500","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=12500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}