{"id":5899,"date":"2006-02-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/02\/17\/2006-02-17-south-africans-celebrate-maha-sivaratri-with-pilgrimage\/"},"modified":"2006-02-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T12:00:00","slug":"2006-02-17-south-africans-celebrate-maha-sivaratri-with-pilgrimage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/02\/17\/2006-02-17-south-africans-celebrate-maha-sivaratri-with-pilgrimage\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africans Celebrate Maha Sivaratri With Pilgrimage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.thepost.co.za\/index.php?fSectionId=154&#038;fArticleId=3112497\">www.thepost.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">LENASIA, SOUTH AFRICA, February 15, 2006: The annual Sivaratri Yatra undertaken by the Hindu communities of Lenasia and Laudium takes place on Sunday. In Laudium, the procession organized by the Pretoria Hindu Organization will begin at 8am from the Sivan Alayam on a seven-kilometer route that will also pass the Vishnu Mandir before ending at the Seva Samaj Mandir. No water points will be available, so devotees have been asked to carry their own. The Tshwane Metro Police will assist with traffic and crowd control and first aid arrangements have been made. For more information contact Shrichandra Lachman at 082 850 2401.<\/p>\n<p>In Lenasia, the Yatra organized by the Hindu Coordinating Council will start at 6am at the SVDS Vishnu Mandir in Penguin Street, Lenasia Extension 1, and take in as many temples as possible along the eight-kilometer route before it ends at the Lenasia Shri Satya Sai Centre in Godavari Street, Lenasia Extension 11A. All affiliates of the Council will have floats in the procession, with devotees requested to all wear white clothing. The Johannesburg Metro Police, Lenasia Yuvak Mandal, Lenasia Athletic Club and Saaberie Chisty Ambulance Services will provide support along the way. For information call Kokie Singh on 011 854 3387<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.thepost.co.za LENASIA, SOUTH AFRICA, February 15, 2006: The annual Sivaratri Yatra undertaken by the Hindu communities of Lenasia and Laudium,&#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-5899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5899","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=5899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}