{"id":13496,"date":"2014-05-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/05\/05\/hindus-open-grand-indian-style-temple-in-guyana\/"},"modified":"2014-05-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T12:00:00","slug":"hindus-open-grand-indian-style-temple-in-guyana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/05\/05\/hindus-open-grand-indian-style-temple-in-guyana\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindus Open Grand Indian-Style Temple In Guyana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaieteurnewsonline.com\/2014\/04\/22\/hindus-open-grand-indian-style-temple-in-berbice\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BERBICE, GUYANA, April 22, 2014 (Kaieteur News): The Hindu Society of Berbice opened the multi-million-dollar Shri Krishna Mandir with a grand ceremony on Sunday at Gay Park, Greater New Amsterdam. The edifice, which models the rare designs of Hindu places of worship in Southern India, is a rarity among architectural designs in these parts of the world. President Donald Ramotar and First Lady Deolatchmee Ramotar were present as were thousands of Hindus from across Guyana.<\/p>\n<p>Hindu activist Mrs. Chandrowtie Maraj noted that a former structure was erected in the area in the 1990&#8217;s. The old mandir was located adjacent to the present structure, she added, but became termite-infested over time. The new Shri Krishna Mandir is complemented by a Maha Kali and Bhagwan Shiva Mandir sitting on both sides in the compound. Its intricately interior and exterior designs go hand-in-hand with its exquisite ceilings and elaborate towering domes.<\/p>\n<p>Guru Dr. Prema Panduraji, a Television personality said, &#8220;When one enters a mandir, all bad and evil thoughts are gone. You are closer to God, that&#8217;s why when you come to a temple; you greet everybody with a smile.&#8221; She said that nothing in Hinduism is secular. &#8220;Our art is spiritual; Mathematics, dance, music, literature&#8211;everything is spiritual&#8230;That is why when you come to the temple, you are intuitively, naturally, spontaneously spiritual&#8211;that is what happens.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source BERBICE, GUYANA, April 22, 2014 (Kaieteur News): The Hindu Society of Berbice opened the multi-million-dollar Shri Krishna Mandir with,&#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-13496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13496","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=13496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}