{"id":6470,"date":"2007-12-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/12\/15\/aging-hindu-temple-in-singapore-undergoes-elaborate-makeover\/"},"modified":"2007-12-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-15T12:00:00","slug":"aging-hindu-temple-in-singapore-undergoes-elaborate-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/12\/15\/aging-hindu-temple-in-singapore-undergoes-elaborate-makeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Aging Hindu Temple In Singapore Undergoes Elaborate Makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.indianmuslims.info\/news\/2007\/dec\/11\/aging_hindu_temple_undergoes_elaborate_makeover.html\">www.indianmuslims.info<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">SINGAPORE, December 11 2007: Craftsmen from India came to carve the tower of an 82-year-old Hindu temple with Deities as part of an elaborate makeover. The Sri Layan Sithi Vinayagar Temple, in the heart of Singapore&#8217;s Chinatown, still retains the main sanctuary and coloured glass, but the walls were knocked down to create more space and better ventilation.<\/p>\n<p>The temple will be re-consecrated Sunday. More than 5,000 people are expected to attend the ceremony. Temple officials told the Straits Times that the congregation had outgrown the sanctuary. &#8220;Over the last 15 years, there has been a steady increase in the number of devotees,&#8221; K. Vellayappan, president of the society which manages the temple, was quoted as saying. &#8220;We want to accommodate everyone comfortable while retaining the essence of the temple,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>It has taken 15 craftsmen from India six months to carve the deities. The three-tiered gopuram, or tower, has been replaced with a five-tiered one. The makeover cost 2.4 million Singapore dollars ($1.7 million).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.indianmuslims.info SINGAPORE, December 11 2007: Craftsmen from India came to carve the tower of an 82-year-old Hindu temple with Deities,&#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-6470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470","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=6470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}