{"id":118978,"date":"2018-04-18T23:42:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T18:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=118978"},"modified":"2018-04-18T23:42:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T18:12:40","slug":"us-maryland-gets-its-first-afghan-hindu-temple-ani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=118978","title":{"rendered":"US: Maryland gets its first Afghan Hindu temple | ANI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of Vaisakhi, the Afghan Hindu community organised the opening ceremony of their first temple in Maryland,\u00a0United States.<\/p>\n<p>Afghan Hindus are a small community and the DC Metropolitan area is home to around 300 Afghan Hindus and Sikhs.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1490771277198-0\" class=\"article-middle-banner\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/6516239\/outofpage_1x1_desktop_0__container__\">The opening ceremony of AsaMai\u00a0Hindu Temple\u00a0of\u00a0Washington Metropolitan\u00a0was also attended by Afghanistan&#8217;s\u00a0Ambassador\u00a0to the United States, Hamdullah Mohib, who along with his team received a warm welcome, the\u00a0Afghan Embassy\u00a0at the US stated on Monday.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0envoy\u00a0congratulated the Afghan Hindu community of the area on the opening of their first temple and expressed his desire to establish close relations with the Afghan Hindu community.<\/p>\n<p>He also offered Afghan embassy&#8217;s support to the community when needed.<\/p>\n<p>The Hindus and Sikhs of\u00a0Afghanistan\u00a0constitute a small minority in their homeland too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of Vaisakhi, the Afghan Hindu community organised the opening ceremony of their first temple in Maryland,\u00a0United States. Afghan Hindus are a small community and the DC Metropolitan area is home to around 300 Afghan Hindus and Sikhs. The opening ceremony of AsaMai\u00a0Hindu Temple\u00a0of\u00a0Washington Metropolitan\u00a0was also attended by Afghanistan&#8217;s\u00a0Ambassador\u00a0to the United States, Hamdullah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}