{"id":6448,"date":"2007-12-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/12\/05\/sikhs-to-have-prayer-room-at-jfk-airport\/"},"modified":"2007-12-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T12:00:00","slug":"sikhs-to-have-prayer-room-at-jfk-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/12\/05\/sikhs-to-have-prayer-room-at-jfk-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Sikhs To Have Prayer Room at JFK Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unitedsikhs.org\/PressReleases\/PRSRLS-04-12-2007-00.html\">www.unitedsikhs.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">QUEENS, NEW YORK, December 4, 2007: Last week, a meeting convened by the New York City Assemblyman for the Sikh community has decided to provide prayer facilities for Sikhs at the John F Kennedy Airport in New York. Airport officials agreed that there was a need for a prayer room for Sikh travelers. The participation of Sikhs at the meeting was orchestrated by Amarjit Singh, United Sikhs&#8217; multifaith coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>Assemblyman Rori Lancman said, &#8220;The Sikh community is a growing population in Queens, and many Sikhs go back and forth to India quite regularly. Sikhs travelers deserve a place to worship at JFK airport alongside those currently set aside for other faiths, and I am very pleased that the Port Authority has committed to work with the community to obtain this goal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Queens area of New York has received a large number of Sikh migrants for many decades and the JFK airport is a hub for Sikh travelers. Therefore the Port Authority&#8217;s accommodation of Sikhs&#8217; needs is a step in the right direction,&#8221; said Avtar Singh Pannu, President of the Sikh Cultural Society. <\/p>\n<p>Currently there are 4 prayer rooms at JFK airport &#8211; for Catholics, Protestants, Jews and a multifaith room. The Port Authority has agreed to subdivide the existing multifaith prayer room to accomodate Sikh travelers.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.unitedsikhs.org QUEENS, NEW YORK, December 4, 2007: Last week, a meeting convened by the New York City Assemblyman for the,&#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-6448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6448","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=6448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}