{"id":7882,"date":"2009-06-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/06\/09\/tamil-nadu-temple-captures-a-generous-swiss-heart\/"},"modified":"2009-06-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T12:00:00","slug":"tamil-nadu-temple-captures-a-generous-swiss-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/06\/09\/tamil-nadu-temple-captures-a-generous-swiss-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Nadu Temple Captures a Generous Swiss Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/Secret-Swiss-patron-donates-Rs-2cr-to-TNadu-temple\/articleshow\/4622634.cms\">timesofindia.indiatimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CHENNAI, INDIA. June 6, 2009: None of the temple officials have ever seen her, but Rameswaram temple&#8217;s largest benefactor, Swiss national Elizabeth Ziegler, has been donating around US$8,000 to $10,000 every year to the Ramanathaswamy temple. Most recently she sent nearly US$440,000 in a single massive donation.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after Bhanumathi Nachair became chairperson of the board of trustees in 2006, she found a letter dated 2004 in which Ms. Ziegler said she wished to make a donation to the temple. &#8220;Nobody had replied to that letter,&#8221; she says. She faxed Ms. Ziegler, thanking her for the offer and explaining how to proceed. &#8220;Elizabeth sent a big donation immediately. That was in 2006. Since then, she has been sending money every year,&#8221; says Bhanumathi.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Ziegler specified how this donation is to be used: Apart from performing daily pujas, the money should be used for the Maha Sivarathri and &#8216;Rudra puja&#8217; (both once a year) and feeding of a minimum of 101 poor people every December 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com CHENNAI, INDIA. June 6, 2009: None of the temple officials have ever seen her, but Rameswaram temple&#8217;s largest,&#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-7882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7882","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=7882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}