{"id":9767,"date":"2010-11-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/11\/16\/californians-celebrates-a-new-hindu-temple\/"},"modified":"2010-11-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T12:00:00","slug":"californians-celebrates-a-new-hindu-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/11\/16\/californians-celebrates-a-new-hindu-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Californians Celebrates A New Hindu Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcstar.com\/news\/2010\/nov\/05\/statues-ceremonies-create-countys-first-hindu\/\">www.vcstar.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>VENTURA, CALIFORNIA, November 5, 2010: Priests sitting on a cushioned platform chanted in Sanskrit. Women in saris danced. Husbands and wives washed marble statues of Lord Shiva and other Hindu Gods in holy water from the Ganges River.<\/p>\n<p>On a sweltering Friday, in a business park behind the Ventura Auto Center, a small Hindu community started three days of ceremonies to breathe life into more than 20 statues of Deities shipped from India. And when the rituals ended on Sunday, a goal that began six years ago was be realized. A renovated warehouse will officially become Ventura County&#8217;s only Hindu temple, serving about 500 families.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is our dream for so many years,&#8221; said Promila Kohli, a board member of the new Hindu Temple Ventura County. &#8220;I feel very relaxed. I feel very happy.&#8221; The planning started in the family room of Kohli&#8217;s Oxnard home six years ago with a handful of people tired of traveling elsewhere to visit a temple. Last year, the group bought the Ventura warehouse and renovated it into a temple. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.vcstar.com VENTURA, CALIFORNIA, November 5, 2010: Priests sitting on a cushioned platform chanted in Sanskrit. Women in saris danced.,&#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-9767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9767","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=9767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}