{"id":6983,"date":"2008-08-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/08\/03\/oxford-england-new-venue-to-hindu-temple\/"},"modified":"2008-08-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-03T12:00:00","slug":"oxford-england-new-venue-to-hindu-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/08\/03\/oxford-england-new-venue-to-hindu-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford, England, New Venue to Hindu Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordmail.net\/display.var.2412345.0.hindu_plan_for_2m_temple.php\">www.oxfordmail.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">OXFORD, ENGLAND, August 3, 2008: Oxford could soon have a Hindu temple to add to its churches, mosques and synagogue. Leaders of Oxfordshire&#8217;s 500-strong Hindu community have launched a campaign to construct a US$3.9 million, 12,000 square foot temple in the city as they currently have no base for communal prayer. Temple project initiator Jagruti Bhuva, 44, from Kennington, said: &#8220;A temple would help unite the community and be a good way to get everyone together and celebrate. &#8220;Some elderly Hindus don&#8217;t have much of a social life and this would give them a place to meet up together and give a big boost in their daily lives.<\/p>\n<p>Although no formal survey has been done, it is believed a large proportion of Oxford&#8217;s 300 Hindus live in Headington. The temple would be open about four hours a day, seven days a week for prayer and use as a community centre. Headington Action Group chairman James Bloice Smith said: &#8220;The Hindu community deserve the right to have their religious beliefs served and I would defend that. To find out more about the temple plans visit www.oxfordhindutempleproject.org <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.oxfordmail.net OXFORD, ENGLAND, August 3, 2008: Oxford could soon have a Hindu temple to add to its churches, mosques and,&#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-6983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983","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=6983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}