{"id":3754,"date":"2003-12-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/12\/03\/2003-12-03-shri-swaminarayan-temple-in-uk-judged-one-of-the-50-best-modern-buildings-to-visit\/"},"modified":"2003-12-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-03T12:00:00","slug":"2003-12-03-shri-swaminarayan-temple-in-uk-judged-one-of-the-50-best-modern-buildings-to-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/12\/03\/2003-12-03-shri-swaminarayan-temple-in-uk-judged-one-of-the-50-best-modern-buildings-to-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Shri Swaminarayan Temple in UK Judged &#8220;One of the 50 Best Modern Buildings to Visit&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.swaminarayan.org\/news\/uk\/2003\/10\/modernbuildings\/\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>LONDON, ENGLAND, December 3, 2003: In its special 18-24 october 2003, issue of The Information magazine The Independent newspaper in UK published a world wide list of the 50 Best Modern Buildings to visit. Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Neasden &#8212; inspired by Pramukh Swami Maharaj &#8212; is ranked second in the list. The magazine says, &#8220;It&#8217;s difficult to imagine, but the northwest London suburb of Neasden is home to the boldest ecclesiastical building erected in Britain since the Middle Ages.&#8221; Also included in this distinguished list are: The London Eye; The Burj Al Arab, Dubai; Thermal Spa, Vals, Switzerland; Tate Modern, London; Reichstag, Germany; The National Museum of Australia; Roden Crater, Arizona, USA; Chikatsu Asuka Historical Museum, Japan; National Space Centre, Leicester; Millennium Dome, London. The list of 50 is comprised of the ten best in each of the following five categories. Commercial, Religious Buildings, Worldly Wonders, Tourism\/Arts, Museums\/Galleries. In the Religious Buildings category the Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Neasden, is ranked first.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceLONDON, ENGLAND, December 3, 2003: In its special 18-24 october 2003, issue of The Information magazine The Independent newspaper in,&#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-3754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754","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=3754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}