{"id":14564,"date":"2015-11-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/11\/17\/australia-s-largest-hindu-temple-to-open-at-rockbank\/"},"modified":"2015-11-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T12:00:00","slug":"australia-s-largest-hindu-temple-to-open-at-rockbank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/11\/17\/australia-s-largest-hindu-temple-to-open-at-rockbank\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s largest Hindu temple to open at Rockbank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starweekly.com.au\/news\/australias-largest-hindu-temple-at-rockbank\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ROCKBANK, AUSTRALIA, November 17, 2015 (Star Weekly): Construction on the Sri Durga temple, at 705 Neales Road, Rockbank, started almost five years ago. A ritual named Prana Pratishtha &#8211; which is believed to infuse life and bring divinity and spiritually into the temple &#8211; will be conducted from November 24 to 30. Sri Durga arts, cultural and education centre committee member Gurpreet Verma said he was excited the project was coming to fruition. &#8220;This is a dream come true [for] the Indian community in Australia,&#8221; Mr Verma said. &#8220;This will be the biggest Sri Durga temple in Australia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gorton MP Brendan O&#8217;Connor said he is delighted that Rockbank will be home to the country&#8217;s largest Hindu temple, saying it symbolises what makes Australia great. &#8220;There is a vibrant and valuable local Indian and subcontinental community here in Melbourne&#8217;s west,&#8221; Mr O&#8217;Connor said. &#8220;I understand the importance of having such a significant community hub and place of worship available to the local Hindu community. &#8220;Indeed, this temple is a symbol of modern Australia &#8211; a confident outward looking and diverse nation.&#8221; The temple opens to the public on November 30 at 5pm, with fireworks from 8pm. Details: 9747 1628<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.starweekly.com.au\/news\/australias-largest-hindu-temple-at-rockbank\/#sthash.Cnfh9W6L.dpuf<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source ROCKBANK, AUSTRALIA, November 17, 2015 (Star Weekly): Construction on the Sri Durga temple, at 705 Neales Road, Rockbank, started,&#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-14564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14564","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=14564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}