Hindu Temple Burglaries in Trinidad Continue

Chaitra Krushna Navami

Port of Spain (Trinidad & Tobago): Thieves have again broken into a Hindu Temple in Trinidad and Tobago. This is most recent in a series of raids which have affected the Hindu places of worship here over the last years.

Police reported that devotees returned to the Mon Plasir Road Hindu Temple on Monday to find it ransacked and over US$10,000 in electronic items taken away. Krishna Murity, 39, public relations of the Temple, said that about 70 devotees had gone to a religious camp during the Easter weekend in Sangre Grande, some 40 kilometres from the Temple. He said that neither the Temple nor the Murtis of Lord Rama and Mother Sita, Lord Shiva and Mother Parvati and Mother Durga, among others were not desecrated.

In August 2006, a world-famous temple by the sea, in Waterloo, Central Trinidad, was ransacked and Murtis of Lord Shiva, Lord Hanuman, Mother Lakshmi, Mother Durga, among others were damaged beyond recognition, but so far police have not been able to charge any one. However, through corporate sponsorships and individuals, the Murtis were restored and a staphana was done to re-consacrate them.

Source: Feedblitz

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