{"id":15722,"date":"2017-09-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/09\/19\/grand-bassin-the-biggest-statue-of-a-female-divinity-in-the-world-soon-unveiled\/"},"modified":"2017-09-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T12:00:00","slug":"grand-bassin-the-biggest-statue-of-a-female-divinity-in-the-world-soon-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/09\/19\/grand-bassin-the-biggest-statue-of-a-female-divinity-in-the-world-soon-unveiled\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand-Bassin: The Biggest Statue of a Female Divinity in the World Soon Unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/defimedia.info\/grand-bassin-la-plus-grande-statue-dune-divinite-feminine-au-monde-bientot-devoilee\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GRAND-BASSIN, MAURITIUS, September 15, 2017 (Defi Media, translated from French): Many saw construction work taking place next to the Mangal Mahadev (statue of the God Shiva) at Ganga Talao in Grand Bassin. The mystery has been lifted: it is a statue of the Hindu Goddess Durga that is being erected. It will be the largest statue of a female deity in the world according to Anil Bachoo, president of the Mangal Mahadev Shakti Swaroopa Association (MMSSA) and project initiator, at a press briefing on Friday, September 15. He said the statue is 108 feet high (33 meters) and explains that 108 is an important symbolic number in Hindu mythology.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We started the construction work in 2011 with Mauritian and Indian craftsmen. The project was entirely financed by donations. &#8220;We also sent a correspondence to the Guinness Book of Records and its Indian counterpart, the Limca Book of Records, after multiple verifications. We would like to know if there is a specific category for the Durga statue. It will be unveiled at a consecration ceremony on September 30 and October 1 in Grand-Bassin, added the project&#8217;s initiator, who invites the entire population to this national event.<\/p>\n<p>Video of project at &#8220;source&#8221; above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source GRAND-BASSIN, MAURITIUS, September 15, 2017 (Defi Media, translated from French): Many saw construction work taking place next to the,&#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-15722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15722","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=15722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}