Europe's biggest Hindu temple in Netherlands

Last Updated: Saturday, February 19, 2011, 17:11

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Europe`s biggest Hindu temple in Netherlands

Brussels: The biggest Hindu temple complex in Europe - consisting of three temples, residential areas and tourist spots - is going to be built in the Dutch city of The Hague.

Three Hindu groups would be building three temples on a site behind the Hollands Spoor railway station, EuAsiaNews reported citing the Netherlands' Trouw newspaper.

The complex will include 45 apartments and is set to open in 2014. There would be rooms for yoga and meditation and tourist spots for foreign guests.

The residential towers are also open to non-Hindus.

The Hague council member Rajesh Ramnewash has designed the plan.

Some one percent of people living in the Netherlands are Hindus. The Hindu community also accounts for the largest immigrant group in the Hague, according to Trouw.

IANS

First Published: Saturday, February 19, 2011, 17:11

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GOPAL KULKARNI - NEW DELHI,INDIA
Hinduism, not being a religion, but a wayof life, shold be highlighted by the Temple complex being built in Europe or anywhere. It is how you live the day to day life that conveys the true spirit of any religion,not the rituals performed.And the best part of Hinduism is that it focuses on one Super Power and various paths to reach that Power. Thus encompassing the whole of humanity and all the religions in the world. If thatfact is accepted, then the world will be a better place to live in and there will be no place of any kind of conflict. That message of Hinduism needs to be spread and not so much the structures.