{"id":9681,"date":"2010-10-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/10\/25\/berlin-s-hindu-community-has-faith-in-a-grand-temple-for-ganesha\/"},"modified":"2010-10-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T12:00:00","slug":"berlin-s-hindu-community-has-faith-in-a-grand-temple-for-ganesha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/10\/25\/berlin-s-hindu-community-has-faith-in-a-grand-temple-for-ganesha\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin&#8217;s Hindu Community Has Faith in a Grand Temple For Ganesha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/germany\/0,1518,719195,00.html\">www.spiegel.de<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BERLIN, GERMANY, September 24, 2010: The Sri Ganesha Temple in Berlin is currently located in a drafty barn-like building with a leaky roof. But the Hindu community dreams of building a suitably grand temple.<\/p>\n<p>Construction work has officially begun, even though believing that there will be enough money to finish it requires faith. After years of planning, fund-raising and setbacks, the groundbreaking ceremony took place on the first day of the 10-day festival to Lord Ganesha.<\/p>\n<p>The temple congregation is made up of about 90 active members, and has big plans. It plans to build what they say will be Germany&#8217;s largest Hindu temple, with an ornamented, 17-meter (56-foot) royal tower (gopuram) at the gateway. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.spiegel.de BERLIN, GERMANY, September 24, 2010: The Sri Ganesha Temple in Berlin is currently located in a drafty barn-like,&#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-9681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9681","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=9681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}