{"id":2421,"date":"2002-09-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/09\/27\/2002-09-27-temple-attacked-after-911-breaks-ground-for-new-building\/"},"modified":"2002-09-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-27T12:00:00","slug":"2002-09-27-temple-attacked-after-911-breaks-ground-for-new-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/09\/27\/2002-09-27-temple-attacked-after-911-breaks-ground-for-new-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Temple Attacked After 9\/11 Breaks Ground for New Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Hamilton Spectator<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>HAMILTON, ONTARIO, CANADA, September 19, 2002: Before the ruins of a burned-out temple, Hamilton&#8217;s Hindu community broke new ground yesterday and vowed to rebuild. About 60 people attended a traditional sod-turning ceremony held on the lawn outside the charred Hindu Samaj Temple. &#8220;It&#8217;s a great day,&#8221; said N. D. (Andy) Patel, the temple&#8217;s general secretary. &#8220;When people hear of the ground-breaking ceremony, they&#8217;ll say, &#8216;Ah, the temple will be built!&#8217; It brings us joy.&#8221; The Twenty Road temple was gutted in a $600,000 arson last year, just days after the 9\/11 terrorist attack. The torching devastated the congregation, which suddenly found itself without a place of worship, and without a center for community and culture. But Patel said that last night&#8217;s ground-breaking ceremony is a chance for Hamilton Hindus to move forward from the arson. &#8220;Everyone will put it behind them now. But there will still be scars,&#8221; he said. The ceremony, called Bhumi Pooja, is like a ground-breaking but has a religious element. Participants ask the Deities to bless the building project so that everything goes smoothly and so that unity is maintained in the new building.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Hamilton Spectator HAMILTON, ONTARIO, CANADA, September 19, 2002: Before the ruins of a burned-out temple, Hamilton&#8217;s Hindu community broke,&#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-2421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421","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=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}