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Abu Dhabi allots land for Hindu temple

ABU DHABI: Abu Dhabi government has on Tuesday allotted a 20,000 square metre of land for the first ever hindu temple in Al Wathba.

 “We took delivery of the land on Monday. Within one year the temple will be built,” businessman BR Shetty, who heads the temple coordination committee, said on Monday night.

“Al Wathba is just 30 minutes from Abu Dhabi City. It will be close to the highway on Abu Dhabi-Al Ain road,” the chief executive officer of NMC Healthcare and UAE Exchange told Khaleej Times.

It was during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit in August last year that the UAE Government announced its decision to allocate land for Abu Dhabi’s first Hindu temple.

“Till date, we only had permission for the temple. It was only on Monday that land allotment has happened,” he said on sidelines of a Press conference at the Indian Social and Cultural Centre to announce the second ISC – Koosamma Shedthy Memorial UAE Open Badminton Team League Tournament.

Elaborating on the size of the land, he said: “The temple will come up on 20,000 square metre (4.95 acres) of compact and beautiful land. It will be the largest.”

At present, there are two Hindu temples and one Sikh gurudwara in Dubai.

The temple will “be fully sponsored by the Abu Dhabi Government,” he added.

Shetty said that His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces was keen on this temple.

“Shaikh Mohammed has written a special note saying ‘Urgent’. He had also passed the order for allotment of the land.”

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