{"id":7975,"date":"2009-07-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/07\/02\/new-hindu-temple-opens-in-minnesota\/"},"modified":"2009-07-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T12:00:00","slug":"new-hindu-temple-opens-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/07\/02\/new-hindu-temple-opens-in-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"New Hindu Temple Opens in Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/kstp.com\/news\/stories\/S1001179.shtml?cat=206\">kstp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MAPLE GROVE, MINNESOTA, USA, JUNE 28, 2009: Over 1,000 people came to Maple Grove on Sunday to celebrate the completion and official opening of one of the largest Hindu temples in the world, fulfilling the 20-year dream of a few determined devotees. Worshipers paraded images of the Deities around the temple and said special prayers in a celebration of life, compassion, and tolerance. It was a celebration of unity and diversity.<\/p>\n<p>Intended to serve Hindus of all sects, this unusual temple houses many Deities under one roof. And the temple isn&#8217;t just for Hindus; it&#8217;s open to people from all religions and backgrounds. &#8220;This is everybody&#8217;s temple. Please visit anytime any day of the week,&#8221; said Shashi Gupta of St. Paul.<\/p>\n<p>The American Midwest is home to between 25,000 and 30,000 Hindus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: kstp.com MAPLE GROVE, MINNESOTA, USA, JUNE 28, 2009: Over 1,000 people came to Maple Grove on Sunday to celebrate,&#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-7975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7975","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=7975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}