{"id":5501,"date":"2009-09-03T23:54:41","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T15:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=5501"},"modified":"2009-09-03T23:54:41","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T15:54:41","slug":"falim-karumariaman-muneeswarar-temple-land-gazetted-as-worship-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/religion\/2009\/09\/03\/falim-karumariaman-muneeswarar-temple-land-gazetted-as-worship-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Falim Karumariaman Muneeswarar Temple land gazetted as worship area"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least there’s some good news<\/a> in the papers today!<\/p>\n

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The Perak Government has gazetted the land on which the popular Sri Maha Karumariaman Muneeswarar Temple sits in Jalan Lahat, Falim here as a \u201cworship area.\u201d<\/p>\n

Announcing this Thursday, state executive councillor Datuk Dr Mah Hang Soon said the Hindu temple had a rich history dating back 80 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople of different races and from different parts of the world come to worship here. It is also a popular tourist destination,\u201d he told reporters after visiting the temple with state Indian affairs adviser Datuk S. Veerasingam.<\/p>\n

Temple committee president K. Kanesan said the committee had been applying for the land title to the 0.5ha plot since 1974.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been waiting for so long to get a land title and having the land gazetted as a worship area is far better than anything else.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is the best gift we could ever have,\u201d Kanesan said while thanking the state government and Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abd Kadir.<\/p>\n

According to its priest Harcharan Singh, the temple attracts about 3,000 devotees with the number swelling to about 10,000 people during festivals.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

One less temple to worry over land issues now. After 35 years of misery, they manage to get this “worship area” status – whatever that means and holds.\u00a0 Hopefully its something permanent and valid in the eyes of the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At least there’s some good news in the papers today! The Perak Government has gazetted the land on which the popular Sri Maha Karumariaman Muneeswarar Temple sits in Jalan Lahat, Falim here as a \u201cworship area.\u201d Announcing this Thursday, state executive councillor Datuk Dr Mah Hang Soon said the Hindu temple had a rich history […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[148,275],"class_list":["post-5501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","category-religion","tag-perak","tag-temples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5503,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501\/revisions\/5503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}