{"id":12937,"date":"2013-08-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/08\/08\/uk-hindu-temple-gets-38-million-redevelopment\/"},"modified":"2013-08-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T12:00:00","slug":"uk-hindu-temple-gets-38-million-redevelopment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/08\/08\/uk-hindu-temple-gets-38-million-redevelopment\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Hindu Temple Gets $3.8 Million Redevelopment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theboltonnews.co.uk\/news\/10592257.Hindu_temple_gets___2_5_million_redevelopment\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED KINGDOM, August 5, 2013 (The Bolton News): A Hindu temple in Bolton is putting the finishing touches to a US$3.8 million redevelopment ahead of its grand reopening later this month. <\/p>\n<p>Deane Road&#8217;s Shree Swaminarayan Mandir Temple has expanded its main hall and prayer room, as well as adding a car park, store rooms and activity facilities. Work began at the temple &#8212; which took over a unitarian church building in 1998 &#8212; last September.<\/p>\n<p>A number of dignitaries, including MPs David Crausby and Yasmin Qureshi, will be at the reopening on August 12. Ganshyam Patel, chairman of the temple, said: &#8220;We&#8217;re calling it a reopening but we&#8217;ve never been completely shut. We&#8217;ve had to move things around the building work at various points but it&#8217;s more a way of celebrating our new facilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Patel said: &#8220;More and more people were coming, so we needed to expand to put more activities on for people. &#8220;Between 500 and 600 people are involved with the temple and about 150 will be here every weekend. <\/p>\n<p>The temple&#8217;s spiritual leader, 71-year-old His Holiness Shree Purshottampryadasjee Swamishree, from Ahmedabad, India, will attend the ceremony, having also travelled to Bolton in June to bless its main shrine after it moved position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source UNITED KINGDOM, August 5, 2013 (The Bolton News): A Hindu temple in Bolton is putting the finishing touches to,&#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-12937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12937","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=12937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}