{"id":20689,"date":"2024-02-28T02:02:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T02:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=20689"},"modified":"2024-02-28T02:02:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T02:02:23","slug":"baps-temple-kemps-creek-nsw-premier-visits-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2024\/02\/28\/baps-temple-kemps-creek-nsw-premier-visits-site\/","title":{"rendered":"BAPS Temple Kemps Creek: NSW Premier Visits Site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, November 13, 2024 (Indian Link): Like many in Sydney\u2019s Indian community this festive season, the NSW Premier visited a Hindu temple to wish revelers a Happy Diwali. The difference though was that his visit was to see the progress at a construction site \u2013 that of the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) coming up in Kemps Creek in the west of Sydney. The new temple is situated in a sprawling 25-acre site, and is set to become the largest traditional stone temple in the Australia-New Zealand region. \u201cI haven\u2019t seen a building on this scale before \u2013 it\u2019s really impressive,\u201d Mr Minns said during the visit. \u201cAs we\u2019ve got a growing population, there needs to be places of worship like these for those emerging communities.\u201d<br> <br>Stage one of the build, expected to be completed in 2024, will encompass the development of essential infrastructure, including a car park, a children\u2019s playground, and a cultural precinct for weekly congregations. The second phase will see the construction of the traditional stone temple. The Minister for Multiculturalism Steve Kamper who accompanied Mr Minns lauded the mandir as a symbol of Western Sydney\u2019s rich and diverse cultural heritage. \u201cIt is going to be a showcase of our wonderful multicultural community,\u201d Mr Kamper said. \u201cI am absolutely blown away by the craftsmanship here. You can see there\u2019s much more to come, but it\u2019s truly starting to take shape.\u201d The groundbreaking ceremony for the temple took place in 2021<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianlink.com.au\/baps-temple-kemps-creek-nsw-premier-visits\/\n\">https:\/\/www.indianlink.com.au\/baps-temple-kemps-creek-nsw-premier-visits\/<br><\/a><br>See also video explanation of project:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/p2NgiE5ZEbg?feature=shared\n\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/p2NgiE5ZEbg?feature=shared<br><\/a><br>Or a timelapse here:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/p2NgiE5ZEbg?feature=shared&amp;t=413\n\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/p2NgiE5ZEbg?feature=shared&amp;t=413<br><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, November 13, 2024 (Indian Link): Like many in Sydney\u2019s Indian community this festive season, the NSW Premier visited,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20689","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20697,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20689\/revisions\/20697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}