{"id":13375,"date":"2014-03-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/03\/06\/new-access-to-gilbraltar-s-hindu-temple-inaugurated\/"},"modified":"2014-03-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T12:00:00","slug":"new-access-to-gilbraltar-s-hindu-temple-inaugurated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/03\/06\/new-access-to-gilbraltar-s-hindu-temple-inaugurated\/","title":{"rendered":"New Access to Gilbraltar&#8217;s Hindu Temple Inaugurated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chronicle.gi\/headlines_details.php?id=33117\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GILBRALTAR, Marcy 4, 2013 (Gibraltar Chronical): HPI note: This is perhaps our first-ever story on the Hindu community of Gilbraltar, the British Overseas Territory located at the south end of Spain&#8217;s Iberian Peninsula at the entrance of the Mediterranean. It has 30,000 residents, 1.8% of them Hindu, in an area of 2.3 square miles.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Minister of Gibraltar, Fabian Picardo, yesterday officially opened the new accessible entrance to the Hindu Temple (http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gibraltar_Hindu_Temple) and attended a reception held in his honor. Greeted by former speaker of Parliament, Haresh Budhrani, and many members of Gibraltar&#8217;s Hindu community, Mr. Picardo was joined by Minister for Equality, Samantha Sacramento. <\/p>\n<p>As part of the evening events, Mr Picardo unveiled a plaque and took part in a Hindu version of cutting the ribbon before he entered the temple. Mr. Picardo and Ms. Sacramento were welcomed into the temple. An aarti &#8211; a Hindu ritual of worship, where lighted wicks are waved around a person in a spirit of humility and gratitude &#8211; to venerate Mr. Picardo came next before a garland was draped around his neck. To finish the welcoming Mr. Picardo lit a lamp. He commented that it was his first time inside the temple and asked many questions about his unfamiliar surroundings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source GILBRALTAR, Marcy 4, 2013 (Gibraltar Chronical): HPI note: This is perhaps our first-ever story on the Hindu community of,&#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-13375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13375","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=13375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}