{"id":12803,"date":"2013-06-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/06\/03\/new-hindu-temple-in-novi-reflects-region-s-growing-asian-indian-population\/"},"modified":"2013-06-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T12:00:00","slug":"new-hindu-temple-in-novi-reflects-region-s-growing-asian-indian-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/06\/03\/new-hindu-temple-in-novi-reflects-region-s-growing-asian-indian-population\/","title":{"rendered":"New Hindu Temple In Novi Reflects Region&#8217;s Growing Asian-Indian Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20130531\/NEWS05\/305310017\/Hindu-temple-opens-in-Novi\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MICHIGAN, U.S., May 31, 2013 (Free Press): Gazing at a new Hindu temple in Novi, Anand Gangadharan reflected Thursday on what the all-granite building means to him. &#8220;It feels emotionally right,&#8221; said Gangadharan, the temple&#8217;s vice chair. &#8220;It&#8217;s extremely gratifying for our community. It makes America our home in a rock-solid fashion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That feeling is echoed by thousands of other of Hindus across metro Detroit this week as they celebrate the grand opening of a $10-million temple with six days of religious ceremonies that end Sunday. The Sri Venkateswara Temple and Cultural Center is the first one in Michigan named after a popular deity in southern India.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of several new Hindu temples being built in metro Detroit that reflects the growth and success of the Asian Indian-American community in Michigan. A Hindu temple in Troy opened a new $11-million center last year and other new Hindu centers have opened in recent years in Detroit, Hamtramck, Ada, Canton, Pontiac, Sterling Heights and Livonia.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, 24 priests from across the U.S. and India chanted in Sanskrit outside the 25,000-square-foot temple. About 8,000 people are expected to attend the ceremonies over the six days.<\/p>\n<p>The temple in Novi was created largely by the members of the Telugu-speaking community, many of whom come from Andhra Pradesh, a state of about 85 million people in India. Serving about 3,000 people, the temple has had a temporary center in Novi for five years.<\/p>\n<p>There are about 85,000 Asian Indian Americans in Michigan. The community has a median income of $86,400 compared to $48,700 overall in Michigan, according to the U.S. Census. About 76% of Asian Indian-American adults in the state have bachelor&#8217;s degrees or higher compared to 27% among all Michigan adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source MICHIGAN, U.S., May 31, 2013 (Free Press): Gazing at a new Hindu temple in Novi, Anand Gangadharan reflected Thursday,&#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-12803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12803","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=12803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}