{"id":7133,"date":"2008-10-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/10\/17\/giant-jain-temple-opens-in-california\/"},"modified":"2008-10-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T12:00:00","slug":"giant-jain-temple-opens-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/10\/17\/giant-jain-temple-opens-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Jain Temple Opens in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.religionnewsblog.com\/22730\/jain-temple\">www.religionnewsblog.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">BUENA PARK, CALIFORNIA, October 15, 2008: A new $20 million Jain temple opened last weekend, following 11 days of dancing, worship and theater topped off by a parade and a traditional ceremony to install sacred marble statues, representing people who attained enlightenment.<\/p>\n<p>Together with its attached cultural center, classrooms and a planned 10,000-tome library, the complex replaces a much smaller temple and will be the largest Jain spiritual centre outside India. The soaring marble-and-limestone facade, with its domed roof and gleaming, coffee-colored pillars, takes up almost an entire block in this working-class city. &#8220;You don&#8217;t see temples this size very often, even in India,&#8221; said Dilip V. Shah, president of Federation of Jain Associations in North America.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.religionnewsblog.com BUENA PARK, CALIFORNIA, October 15, 2008: A new $20 million Jain temple opened last weekend, following 11 days of,&#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-7133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7133","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=7133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}