{"id":1516,"date":"2002-01-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/01\/03\/2002-01-03-australian-court-curtails-public-worship-in-home\/"},"modified":"2002-01-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-01-03T12:00:00","slug":"2002-01-03-australian-court-curtails-public-worship-in-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/01\/03\/2002-01-03-australian-court-curtails-public-worship-in-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Court Curtails Public Worship in Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/0112\/27\/national\/national25.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>CAMPBELLTOWN, AUSTRALIA, December 27, 2001: For over 10 years Prem and Rama Misra have been worshipping a sacred Hindu icon, a gift from King Birendra of Nepal, in their Australian home. They have been recently ordered by the Land &#038; Environment Court that the small temple on their residence be used solely for private worship. Judge Dennis Cowdroy said, &#8220;Private events conducted by the residents of the dwelling would not be prohibited unless they could be characterized as constituting &#8216;public worship&#8217; as defined by the High Court of Australia.&#8221; Mr. Misra feels that the situation has not changed and told Campbelltown council, &#8220;It&#8217;s not a place for public worship. Irrespective of zoning, it&#8217;s a holy site, and council should work around it to see how that can be recognized.&#8221; Investigation by council revealed that the dwelling has a prayer and meditation room with over 100 chairs stacked against the wall and that the proposed tennis court is used as a car park.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE CAMPBELLTOWN, AUSTRALIA, December 27, 2001: For over 10 years Prem and Rama Misra have been worshipping a,&#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-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","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=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}