{"id":9675,"date":"2010-10-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/10\/24\/hindu-temples-in-bangkok\/"},"modified":"2010-10-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T12:00:00","slug":"hindu-temples-in-bangkok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/10\/24\/hindu-temples-in-bangkok\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Temples in Bangkok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/lifestyle\/story.asp?file=\/2010\/9\/18\/lifetravel\/7003443&#038;sec=lifetravel\">thestar.com.my<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BANGKOK, THAILAND, September 18, 2010: Bangkok is often synonymous with Buddhism, but the savvy traveler and the devout know that the city also has five other Hindu shrines the size of Thailand&#8217;s ubiquitous Buddhist Temples.These six shrines honor the Hindu Deities Brahman, Indra, Narayana, Lakshmi, Trimurti Ishvara and Ganesha. <\/p>\n<p>It is easy to visit and pray at all six is easy because they are all within walking distance of one another. All six life-sized Deities are located on relatively small spaces, and worshippers pray in the open air. It&#8217;s customary to start at the famous Erawan Shrine, also called Brahman Shrine or Phra Phrom by the Thais&#8211;every taxi driver in Bangkok knows this most revered and famous of shrines in Ratchaprasong, the city&#8217;s pre-eminent shopping and entertainment district. Millions, including Malaysians, visit annually, to worship the four-faced Brahma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: thestar.com.my BANGKOK, THAILAND, September 18, 2010: Bangkok is often synonymous with Buddhism, but the savvy traveler and the devout,&#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-9675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9675","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=9675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}