{"id":4588,"date":"2004-09-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/09\/26\/2004-09-26-hindu-temple-in-canadian-brampton-suburbs\/"},"modified":"2004-09-26T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-26T12:00:00","slug":"2004-09-26-hindu-temple-in-canadian-brampton-suburbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/09\/26\/2004-09-26-hindu-temple-in-canadian-brampton-suburbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Temple in Canadian Brampton Suburbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Star<\/P><P>BRAMPTON, ONTARIO, CANADA, September 13, 2004: When Sat Malik arrived in Canada over 30 years ago, he decided to settle in the province of Ontario. Malik recalls this time, &#8220;When I arrived in the early 1970&#8217;s, I could hardly find another South Asian man on the street, never mind a Hindu temple.&#8221; Wanting to connect with his religious roots, Malik and four other Hindu families gathered together every Sunday in a rented schoolhouse room to perform religious services. Now almost 35 years later the Hindu community has flourished in the province. In Brampton, Hindus have built the Hindu Sabha Temple , a 32,000 square foot $11 million temple. The article says, &#8220;The main prayer hall can accommodate close to 2,500 people, a Hindu school, community hall and 440 parking spaces. It has become the centre of many new residential developments.&#8221; Located on 8.5 hectares, the 37-metre tower is a landmark for the surrounding community. Many Hindus have moved to Brampton to be near the temple. Mahan Gupta, a 42-year-old teacher who came to Canada in 1989, says, &#8220;I have a 78-year-old mother. She used to ask me to take her to the temple. Sometimes I just wasn&#8217;t able to. Now my mom can walk here by herself to volunteer here and spend time with her friends.&#8221; Dinesh Chander, age 47 and temple congregant, adds, &#8220;It&#8217;s just natural evolution that people move out of the city for a better life and move close to a temple, which is the magnet and center of their lives.&#8221; <BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto StarBRAMPTON, ONTARIO, CANADA, September 13, 2004: When Sat Malik arrived in Canada over 30 years ago, he decided,&#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-4588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588","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=4588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}