{"id":3481,"date":"2003-09-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/09\/08\/2003-09-08-british-home-secretary-blunkett-visits-hindu-temple\/"},"modified":"2003-09-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-08T12:00:00","slug":"2003-09-08-british-home-secretary-blunkett-visits-hindu-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/09\/08\/2003-09-08-british-home-secretary-blunkett-visits-hindu-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"British Home Secretary Blunkett visits Hindu Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.news.scotsman.com\/latest.cfm?id=1887552\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>SOUTHALL, U.K., September 4, 2003: British Home Secretary David Blunkett was welcomed with a garland of flowers when he visited Shree Ram Mandir in Southall, Middlesex on Thursday. The Shree Ram Mandir is one of UK&#8217;s oldest temples. Mr. Blunkett was given a tour of the Deities and listened to a traditional instrumental performance on sitar as well as a recitation of the scriptures. The Home Secretary praised local head teachers, religious leaders and worshippers for working together and creating the much-used resource center. The Shree Ram Mandir is used as a social, educational and religious base for locals of different faiths. As well as holding GCSE classes in Hindi (GCSE is a high school certification in a subject), it holds music and dance lessons, organizes health projects, wedding services, social activities for the elderly and provides a creche for local children. The founder member and trustee of the temple, Rabindra Patahak, said the temple provided people of all ages with a place to come and take part in cultural activities. Mahanta Shrestha, from Nepal added: &#8220;More than 200 people come here through these doors every day. This is the first minister we have ever seen here, and I hope it will be a milestone for us as a community.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceSOUTHALL, U.K., September 4, 2003: British Home Secretary David Blunkett was welcomed with a garland of flowers when he visited,&#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-3481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481","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=3481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}