{"id":4521,"date":"2004-09-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/09\/08\/2004-09-08-pennsyvania-s-indian-community-collaborates-to-build-a-temple\/"},"modified":"2004-09-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-08T12:00:00","slug":"2004-09-08-pennsyvania-s-indian-community-collaborates-to-build-a-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/09\/08\/2004-09-08-pennsyvania-s-indian-community-collaborates-to-build-a-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsyvania&#8217;s Indian Community Collaborates to Build a Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.thereporteronline.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=12793467&#038;BRD=2275&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=466404&#038;rfi=6\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>MONTGOMERY, PENNSYLVANIA, August 27, 2004: Hindu families in Montgomery County in Pennsylvania are now seeing the fruits of their labor after over a decade of planning and construction. On October 22 of this year, the Bharatiya Temple and Cultural Center will celebrate its grand opening. Nandi Todi, president of the temple, says, &#8220;It was a very, very tough road, trying to bring the people together; one of the main challenges was to bring the community together, to get them to start believing the project was a reality. It has been very encouraging, and everybody&#8217;s very happy about it, everybody is looking forward to it.&#8221; In 1998, the Bharatiya Temple Inc. was established as a tax-exempt religious organization. Over 1,500 Indian families from diverse ethnic groups will frequent the temple. Mohindar Sardana, secretary of the temple, says, &#8220;Now we will have a temple for kids so that they can have the same learning experience we had. We are all aging, and our time is almost gone, so we want to leave a legacy so our children can follow.&#8221; The article says, &#8220;The temple will include a multipurpose room and classrooms to teach children about the language, religion and culture of the Hindu religion.&#8221; <BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceMONTGOMERY, PENNSYLVANIA, August 27, 2004: Hindu families in Montgomery County in Pennsylvania are now seeing the fruits of their labor,&#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-4521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521","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=4521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}