{"id":9145,"date":"2010-06-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/06\/08\/scotland-s-largest-hindu-temple-devastated-by-blaze\/"},"modified":"2010-06-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T12:00:00","slug":"scotland-s-largest-hindu-temple-devastated-by-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/06\/08\/scotland-s-largest-hindu-temple-devastated-by-blaze\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland&#8217;s Largest Hindu Temple Devastated By Blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/home-news\/scotland-s-largest-hindu-temple-devastated-by-shocking-blaze-1.1031544?localLinksEnabled=false\">www.heraldscotland.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, May 31, 2010: The largest Hindu temple in Scotland has been devastated by a fire, causing thousands of pounds&#8217; worth of damage. About 45 firefighters tackled the blaze at the Hindu Cultural Centre in the west end of Glasgow. The centre, on La Belle Place, was used as a place of worship by hundreds of Hindus every day and is expected to remain closed indefinitely. An investigation is underway.<\/p>\n<p>The temple opened in July 2006 after a 12-year campaign to house such a building in the area. The opening was attended by people from around the world, including high priests, scholars and religious leaders. It went on to become a hub for the community and provided outreach activities for schools and Hindu groups.<br \/>Anas Sarwar, the newly elected Labour MP for Glasgow Central, said: &#8220;All of our thoughts go out to the Hindu and Indian communities in Glasgow at this difficult time. It was a fantastic and beautiful temple which was a great symbol of the diverse culture of Glasgow. We will give any support needed at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.heraldscotland.com GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, May 31, 2010: The largest Hindu temple in Scotland has been devastated by a fire, causing,&#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-9145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9145","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=9145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}