{"id":6388,"date":"2007-11-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/11\/04\/a-home-for-ganesha-construction-starts-on-berlin-s-first-hindu-temple\/"},"modified":"2007-11-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-04T12:00:00","slug":"a-home-for-ganesha-construction-starts-on-berlin-s-first-hindu-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/11\/04\/a-home-for-ganesha-construction-starts-on-berlin-s-first-hindu-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"A Home For Ganesha: Construction Starts On Berlin&#8217;s First Hindu Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/germany\/0,1518,515011,00.html\">www.spiegel.de<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">BERLIN, GERMANY, November 2, 2007:  Among the many diverse religious groups in the German capital Berlin are around 6,000 HIndus. However, unlike the city&#8217;s many Christians Muslims and Buddhists, Berlin&#8217;s Hindus have had no central place of worship&#8211;until now. Construction works starts Sunday on Berlin&#8217;s first Hindu temple with a religious ritual and ceremonial ground-breaking. The temple is being built in a park in Berlin&#8217;s Neukollin district. Local authorities are allowing the Hindu community to use a corner of the park rent-free until 2080.<\/p>\n<p>The temple is being built by the Sri Ganesha Hindu Temple Committee and will be dedicated to the Hindu God Ganesha. The construction, which will cost US$1,2 million to build and is financed entirely by donations, will have a 17-meter high ornamental tower decorated with sculptures. Stone masons are coming  from India  to carry out the work.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.spiegel.de BERLIN, GERMANY, November 2, 2007: Among the many diverse religious groups in the German capital Berlin are around 6,000,&#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-6388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6388","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=6388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}