India renovates old Hindu temples and build new ones across the world

RELIGIOUS NEWS AGENCY (REDNA) – India has planned to renovate old Hindu temples and build new ones across the world.

According to the Indian English-language newspaper, the Statesman, a department for cultural conservation has been set up in the Ministry of External Affairs in India, to renovate old Hindu temples abroad.

The report by the newspaper quotes a conversation with India’s External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar, who was in Varanasi to chair the G20 meeting this weekend.

He said a temple being built in Abu Dhabi will be completed by the end of this year, permission has been granted for temples in Bahrain and France and there are plans for a temple in New York.

He is reported as saying that India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi chose to hold the G20 in Varanasi, a holy city in Hinduism, to take its message and cultural heritage across the world.