{"id":8297,"date":"2009-09-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/09\/30\/london-s-open-house-festival-includes-hindu-temple\/"},"modified":"2009-09-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T12:00:00","slug":"london-s-open-house-festival-includes-hindu-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/09\/30\/london-s-open-house-festival-includes-hindu-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"London&#8217;s Open House Festival Includes Hindu Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/2009\/sep\/20\/london-open-house-festival-architecture\">www.guardian.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, ENGLAND, September 20, 2009: The Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, known locally as Neasden Temple, was one of the highlights of this year&#8217;s Open House architecture festival in London. Although it is the biggest Hindu temple in Europe, the intricate design belies its size.<\/p>\n<p>The temple, which opened in 1995, receives more than 500,000 visitors each year. Although open to the public all year round, a spokesman says the Open House event encourages non-Hindus, including many nearby residents, to come, and more than 2,000 were expected over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p>More than 700 buildings across London, including architecture award-winning private homes, Masonic temples and futuristic classrooms, were on show, giving visitors direct access to architects and designers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.guardian.co.uk LONDON, ENGLAND, September 20, 2009: The Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, known locally as Neasden Temple, was one of the,&#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-8297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8297","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=8297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}