{"id":7585,"date":"2009-03-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/03\/23\/germany-has-a-new-hindu-tamil-temple\/"},"modified":"2009-03-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T12:00:00","slug":"germany-has-a-new-hindu-tamil-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/03\/23\/germany-has-a-new-hindu-tamil-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Has a New Hindu Tamil Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/germany\/0,1518,614948,00.html\">www.spiegel.de<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">HANOVER, GERMANY, March 23, 2009:  The Sri Muthumariamman Temple&#8211;the largest Hindu temple in northern Germany&#8211;opened Sunday with a purifying fire ceremony that started before sunrise.  A Hindu high priest from Canada performed the ritual blessings, and a calf loaned by a local farmer served as a holy presence.  Built by the 300-member Tamil Hindu Cultural Association, the new temple will hold about 100 people.  The US$406,000 project was funded with a loan, supplemented by donations.<\/p>\n<p>Around 1,000 Hindus from around Germany attended for blessings on Sunday evening. Hindus believe that attending the ritual purification of a new temple can bring as much luck as many years of prayer. About 5,000 Hindus live in the Lower Saxony area, where Hanover is located.  &#8220;This Hindu temple will enrich Hanover&#8217;s religious diversity,&#8221; said Hanover&#8217;s mayor, Ingrid Lange, on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the link above for a colorful slideshow.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.spiegel.de HANOVER, GERMANY, March 23, 2009: The Sri Muthumariamman Temple&#8211;the largest Hindu temple in northern Germany&#8211;opened Sunday with a purifying,&#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-7585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7585","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=7585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}