{"id":9439,"date":"2010-08-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/08\/21\/hindu-temple-honored-on-postage-stamp-a-first-in-malaysia\/"},"modified":"2010-08-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T12:00:00","slug":"hindu-temple-honored-on-postage-stamp-a-first-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/08\/21\/hindu-temple-honored-on-postage-stamp-a-first-in-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Temple Honored On Postage Stamp, a First in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malaysianmirror.com\/media-buzz-detail\/6-nation\/48920-hindu-temple-on-postage-stamp\">www.malaysianmirror.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, August 22, 2010: The Sri Maha Mariamman temple, the oldest functioning Hindu temple in Kuala Lumpur, has been given the honor of being the first ever temple portrayed on a postage stamp.<\/p>\n<p>The stamp was launched Saturday by MIC president Datuk Seri S.Samy Vellu to commemorate the temple&#8217;s sixth consecration ceremony to be held tomorrow. The ceremony is held once every 12 years. The temple&#8217;s information officer B.Vivekananda said, &#8220;The funds for upgrading the temple is collected through donations from the public and from the savings account of the temple itself.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1873, the temple which was originally located near the Kuala Lumpur railway station was shifted to the current place in Jalan Tun H.S. Lee in 1885. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.malaysianmirror.com KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, August 22, 2010: The Sri Maha Mariamman temple, the oldest functioning Hindu temple in Kuala,&#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-9439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439","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=9439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}