{"id":16143,"date":"2018-09-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2018\/09\/18\/nepal-s-restored-manakamana-temple-sparkles-in-gold\/"},"modified":"2018-09-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T12:00:00","slug":"nepal-s-restored-manakamana-temple-sparkles-in-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2018\/09\/18\/nepal-s-restored-manakamana-temple-sparkles-in-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal&#8217;s Restored Manakamana Temple Sparkles in Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kathmandupost.ekantipur.com\/news\/2018-09-15\/restored-manakamana-temple-sparkles-in-gold.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KATHMANDU, NEPAL, September 15, 2018 (Kathmandu Post): Authorities have completed the reconstruction of Manakamana Temple damaged during the earthquake that struck Nepal on April 25, 2015. The four-story temple of Manakamana, the wish-fulfilling Hindu Goddess popular among Hindu pilgrims, was tilted 9 to 12 inches towards northeast by the earthquake and developed cracks on its pagoda style roofs. Reconstruction crew removed the damaged structure and started renovating the temple from a new foundation in June 2015. The renovated temple has gold-plated roof. Renovation Committee Coordinator Narendrababu Shrestha said, &#8220;We used 40lbs. of the precious metal to gold-plate the temple&#8217;s roof.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The committee spent around US$785,000 to buy the gold, and around $1.13 million to reconstruct the temple, the official said. &#8220;We purchased gold for plating the temple&#8217;s steeple and roof after obtain permission from the Department of Archaeology (DoA),&#8221; said Shrestha. DoA engineers guided the reconstruction of the temple, committee members said. They used limestone, surkhi, bricks and wood to reconstruct various structures. &#8220;We shall open the temple for devotees for the Dashain festival,&#8221; said Shrestha. The committee estimates an additional $349,000 to construct other infrastructure in the temple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source KATHMANDU, NEPAL, September 15, 2018 (Kathmandu Post): Authorities have completed the reconstruction of Manakamana Temple damaged during the earthquake,&#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-16143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16143","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=16143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}