{"id":3103,"date":"2003-05-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/05\/21\/2003-05-21-iowa-hindus-have-new-temple\/"},"modified":"2003-05-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-21T12:00:00","slug":"2003-05-21-iowa-hindus-have-new-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/05\/21\/2003-05-21-iowa-hindus-have-new-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Hindus Have New Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amestrib.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=8041182&#038;BRD=2035&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=238101&#038;rfi=8\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>IOWA, U.S.A., May 17, 2003: If you are a Hindu living in Madrid, Iowa, you now have a Hindu temple to worship in. Located right beside the Des Moines River, the new temple will cost US$1.6 million when it is finished. The community at large has accepted the new house of worship as was evidenced when 300 nonmembers visited the temple&#8217;s open house last month and when two of Madrid&#8217;s Christian churches sent flowers and welcoming greetings. Jai Seecharran, a Hindu of the congregation says, &#8220;There is a lot of curiosity about Hinduism among other religions. We believe that a person has a freedom of practicing their religion.&#8221; Seecharran also added that the temple is open on weekends but as soon as they have a priest there will be regular temple hours. Suren Gupta, a consulting engineer and co-chair of the temple&#8217;s board says, &#8220;Even with their differences, Hindus have much in common with other faiths. You speak the truth, to help a human being in suffering and in need, to do the right thing, to follow your conscience&#8230;.things you would have in common in most religions.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceIOWA, U.S.A., May 17, 2003: If you are a Hindu living in Madrid, Iowa, you now have a Hindu temple,&#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-3103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103","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=3103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}