{"id":12920,"date":"2013-08-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/08\/01\/new-canadian-hindu-temple-completed\/"},"modified":"2013-08-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T12:00:00","slug":"new-canadian-hindu-temple-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/08\/01\/new-canadian-hindu-temple-completed\/","title":{"rendered":"New Canadian Hindu Temple Completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyheraldtribune.com\/2013\/07\/28\/gp-hindu-temple-complete\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GRANDE PRAIRIE, CANADA, July 28, 2013 (Daily Herald Tribune): Grande Prairie&#8217;s growing community of Hindus celebrated the official opening of the first temple in the province north of Edmonton on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The day was marked by a traditional ritual of &#8220;prana pratishta,&#8221; a rite in Hindu theology that distinguishes the consecration of the deities, followed by an inauguration by Mayor Bill Given. With that, the formal ceremony transformed a patch of ground east of the city limits into a sacred dwelling of public worship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is such a joyous occasion,&#8221; said Ratna Kali Roy, the wife of Nikhilesh Roy, president of the Grande Prairie Hindu Association (GPHA). &#8220;We consider ourselves very lucky that we have been able to do this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The notion of a cultural center is rooted in the need for one by Grande Prairie&#8217;s practicing Hindus. According to Roy, the families have had to travel 280 miles to Edmonton, if wanting to visit the nearest temple rather than gathering in private homes. &#8220;It worked before when the (Hindu) community was quite small, but now it has grown a lot, and we definitely needed a space to call our own and celebrate properly,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will be a place for us to celebrate our festivals, instill our traditions in our children and showcase our culture to the people of peace region, said Roy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source GRANDE PRAIRIE, CANADA, July 28, 2013 (Daily Herald Tribune): Grande Prairie&#8217;s growing community of Hindus celebrated the official opening,&#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-12920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12920","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=12920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}