{"id":6017,"date":"2016-05-14T18:17:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T18:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=6014&amp;preview_id=6014"},"modified":"2016-05-14T18:17:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T18:17:11","slug":"londons-muslim-mayor-visits-hindu-temple-performs-jalabhishek-on-shri-swaminarayans-idol-see-pics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=6017","title":{"rendered":"London&#8217;s Muslim Mayor visits Hindu temple, performs &#8216;Jalabhishek&#8217; on Shri Swaminarayan&#8217;s idol \u2013 See pics | Zee News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>London: Spreading the message of harmony and peace over communal hatred, London\u2019s first Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, visited city\u2019s famous Shri Swaminarayan temple in Neasden a few days ago before he was elected.<\/p>\n<p>He later shared the pictures of his visit to the temple on his Facebook handle which soon went viral on social media.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the pictures, Khan is seen performing &#8216;Jalabhishek&#8217; (offering water) on the idol of Shri Swaminarayan.<\/p>\n<p>The son of Pakistani immigrants to the UK, Khan won a historic victory in the London mayoral race, defeating Zac Goldsmith, the Conservative candidate and wealthy scion of a billionaire banker, to become the first Muslim mayor of a major European city.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/zeenews.india.com\/news\/world\/londons-muslim-mayor-visits-hindu-temple-performs-jalabhishek-on-shri-swaminarayans-idol-see-pics_1885070.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">London\u2019s Muslim Mayor visits Hindu temple, performs \u2018Jalabhishek\u2019 on Shri Swaminarayan\u2019s idol \u2013 See pics | Zee News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London: Spreading the message of harmony and peace over communal hatred, London\u2019s first Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, visited city\u2019s famous Shri Swaminarayan temple in Neasden a few days ago before he was elected. He later shared the pictures of his visit to the temple on his Facebook handle which soon went viral on social media. [&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\/6017"}],"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=6017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}