{"id":3057,"date":"2003-05-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/05\/05\/2003-05-05-montreal-s-asian-communities-flourish-in-their-houses-of-worship\/"},"modified":"2003-05-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-05T12:00:00","slug":"2003-05-05-montreal-s-asian-communities-flourish-in-their-houses-of-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/05\/05\/2003-05-05-montreal-s-asian-communities-flourish-in-their-houses-of-worship\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal&#8217;s Asian Communities Flourish in Their Houses of Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gazette<\/P><P>MONTREAL, CANADA, April 27, 2003: South Asian and Indian communities, practising the religion of their choice, whether that be Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism or Islam, are the first to build houses of worship when they migrate to other countries. In Montreal, temples and mosques serve to unite the community that is scattered throughout the city. The significance of these houses of worship in Montreal has become paramount as they provide a place for people of shared beliefs to worship and socialize. Vikram Bhatti, vice-president of the Hindu Temple of Quebec says, &#8220;Creating a place of connection for the community is key. Every Sunday there is a program or some kind of social gathering.&#8221; This particular Hindu Temple also organizes bimonthly gatherings for elderly residents who get together to do yoga, cook and eat their own food together. Pradeep Sagar, a businessman from the Punjab who arrived in Montreal in 1990, found common ground at the Hindu Mission Temple when he started working in the kitchen and serving people. Moin Ghauri recalls that the gatherings at the Islamic Center of Quebec numbered 30-35 people in the 1960&#8217;s. In comparison, Manjit Singh, a member of Montreal&#8217;s Sikh community says, &#8220;On Sunday we might have anywhere from 200-600 people come to a service. It becomes an occasion to meet and to renew connections.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GazetteMONTREAL, CANADA, April 27, 2003: South Asian and Indian communities, practising the religion of their choice, whether that be,&#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-3057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057","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=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}