{"id":15634,"date":"2017-07-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/07\/24\/hindu-community-celebrates-10th-anniversary-of-temple-with-trudeau\/"},"modified":"2017-07-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T12:00:00","slug":"hindu-community-celebrates-10th-anniversary-of-temple-with-trudeau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/07\/24\/hindu-community-celebrates-10th-anniversary-of-temple-with-trudeau\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Community Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Temple with Trudeau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/beta\/news\/canada\/toronto\/mahant-swami-maharaj-key-city-toronto-1.4217751\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TORONTO, CANADA, July 24, 2017 (CBC News): Thousands from the Hindu community in Toronto and beyond turned out Saturday to celebrate the 10th anniversary of an iconic temple that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called &#8220;without a doubt one of Canada&#8217;s architectural wonders.&#8221; The celebration of the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, temple, located in Etobicoke, also saw His Holiness Mahant Swami Maharaj be given a key to the city of Toronto by Mayor John Troy. Mahant Swami Maharaj is the sixth spiritual guru of Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am honored to recognize his Holiness&#8217; global and Toronto-based humanitarian, charitable, and community-building efforts through BAPS Charities Canada,&#8221; Mayor Tory said in a press release. &#8220;His Holiness&#8217; great contributions have enriched Toronto.&#8221; Spokesperson Nilesh Mehta says it took 6,000 tons of marble and stone, mined in Italy and Turkey, and 1,500 people to hand-carve the pieces, which were then assembled in Canada with the help of hundreds of volunteers. &#8220;That tells you something about the Indo-Canadian community, that Canada is our home. When you put up a building that&#8217;s going to stand there for 1,000 years, that means we&#8217;re here to stay.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source TORONTO, CANADA, July 24, 2017 (CBC News): Thousands from the Hindu community in Toronto and beyond turned out Saturday,&#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-15634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15634","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=15634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}