{"id":7578,"date":"2009-03-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/03\/21\/ganesha-temple-in-norway-offers-virtual-tour\/"},"modified":"2009-03-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T12:00:00","slug":"ganesha-temple-in-norway-offers-virtual-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/03\/21\/ganesha-temple-in-norway-offers-virtual-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Ganesha Temple in Norway Offers Virtual Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.himmeljord.no\/ContentItem.aspx?ci=76 {translated from Norwegian}\">www.himmeljord.no<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">MINDE, NORWAY: Bergen Hindu Sabha names both a religious community of Hindus from India and Sri Lanka, and also a Tamil Hindu temple of the Saiva tradition dedicated to Lord Ganesha, the God of intellect and wisdom and ruler of obstacles.<\/p>\n<p>Its spokesperson, Raajini Rajalingam, says that Bergen Hindu Sabha has been active since the mid 1980s and was registered as a religious community with the County Governor of Hordaland in 1990. Statues were imported from India in the mid 1990&#8217;s, when the sabha maintained a temple in a rented space in nearby Bergen. The beautiful temple that exists today in Minde, converted from an old cinema building, was made possible by a loan, savings from collections, individual donations, and the hard work of many dedicated volunteers. It was inaugurated on August 27, 2004, in a five-day ceremony involving six priests, and today celebrates all religious festivals. <\/p>\n<p>Today the sabha numbers about 700 members living in nearby communities. You can Take a tour of this temple by clicking on the link above.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.himmeljord.no MINDE, NORWAY: Bergen Hindu Sabha names both a religious community of Hindus from India and Sri Lanka, and also,&#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-7578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7578","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=7578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}