{"id":9129,"date":"2010-06-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/06\/05\/traditional-hindu-temple-dedicated-in-mississippi\/"},"modified":"2010-06-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T12:00:00","slug":"traditional-hindu-temple-dedicated-in-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/06\/05\/traditional-hindu-temple-dedicated-in-mississippi\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional Hindu Temple Dedicated In Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/picayuneitem.com\/statenews\/x2023222631\/Traditional-Hindu-temple-dedicated-in-Mississippi\">picayuneitem.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BRANDON, MISSISSIPPI, June, 2010: With 16 tiers of Hindu script etched into its concrete ceiling, the ornate, cream-colored temple is an eye-catching structure at the end of a winding road near Brandon, a growing bedroom community just outside Mississippi&#8217;s capital city.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Hindu Temple Society of Mississippi hope the new 3,500-square-foot structure, built according to ancient rules of temple design called &#8220;Agama Sastra,&#8221; will draw throngs of worshippers and tourists to the site in the heart of the Bible Belt.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sampat Shivangi, a local physician, said more than 1,000 visitors were expected this week during a dedication ceremony. &#8220;We feel we are so lucky we can see the gods installed and given life,&#8221; said Shivangi. &#8220;New temples are not usually built in India. They stand for 5,000 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shivangi said artisans from India spent four years constructing the temple from natural materials such as granite, wood, straw and marble at a cost of about $3 million. The money was raised by the temple&#8217;s devotees, who have grown in number from about 20 families in the 1970s to more than 1,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: picayuneitem.com BRANDON, MISSISSIPPI, June, 2010: With 16 tiers of Hindu script etched into its concrete ceiling, the ornate, cream-colored,&#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-9129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9129","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=9129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}