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Publication: Hinduismtoday.com
Date: May 5, 2012.
URL: http://www.hinduismtoday.com/blogs-news/hindu-press-international/hindus-inaugurate-new-temple-in-denmark/12144.html
From the outside it looks like an ordinary old school, but when you move inside the gymnasium of the former Vallensved School of Naestved, it's buzzing with activities. The hall has been converted into a Hindu temple, where several hundred Tamils are gathered for Friday prayers, which for the Hindus is the most sacred day of the week. Shortly before Christmas Naestved Municipality sold the abandoned school to the Hindu Cultural Organisation in Naestved, which has since been busy readying the premises for the opening. Tamil volunteers have worked day and night so they could finally invite the local people to attend the opening ceremony, on Friday, of the Sri Katpaha Vinayager Temple in Vallensved.
Several local residents had said yes to the invitation and showed up to congratulate the Hindus for their new temple--among others the Rugbjerg Nygaard family from Vallensved. "It's awfully good that they could turn the abandoned school into something sensible. It is exciting and different, and I could well imagine coming to visit again," says Ib Nygaard, who had come to the opening ceremony with his wife Amy and their son Rasmus Rugbjerg Nygaard. "I am impressed with their dedication and their community. It is beautiful and admirable," says Ib Nygaard.
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