{"id":14068,"date":"2015-02-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/02\/23\/australian-town-council-investigates-hindu-temple-operating-out-of-home\/"},"modified":"2015-02-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T12:00:00","slug":"australian-town-council-investigates-hindu-temple-operating-out-of-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/02\/23\/australian-town-council-investigates-hindu-temple-operating-out-of-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Town Council Investigates Hindu Temple Operating Out of Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/leader\/news\/hume-council-investigates-claims-hindu-temple-operating-at-craigieburn-residential-home\/story-fnrvvn43-1227221301581\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, February 17, 2015 (Herald Sun): An investigation has been launched into whether a Craigieburn house is being used as a Hindu temple. But the home&#8217;s owner denied the claims when approached by Hume Leader, despite running a Facebook page promoting prayer sessions and taking donations.<\/p>\n<p>Craigieburn Mata Mandir is listed on Facebook as a Hindu temple in Hanson Rd. operating from 8am-8pm. It has almost 500 likes and posts photos, reviews and event details. A post on November 23 said a new temple was being constructed at the address with a &#8220;grand opening&#8221; advertised for January 17. There have also been posts encouraging donations with bank account details listed.<\/p>\n<p>After being contacted by Hume Leader, all these posts were removed. City sustainability director Kelvin Walsh said Hume Council was investigating. According to the council, having a place of worship at a residential property could be within the owner&#8217;s rights. While residential zones are primarily for housing, they can, in some instances, allow for educational, religious, recreational, community and other uses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, February 17, 2015 (Herald Sun): An investigation has been launched into whether a Craigieburn house is being,&#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-14068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14068","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=14068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}