FOUNDERS OF CITY TEMPLE ARE PRAISED

From today's Leicester Mercury (though it doesn't appear on its website):

Founders of city temple are praised 

His Excellency the Counsel General of India, Gururaj Rao, was the special guest at the unveiling of a plaque at the Jalaram Temple, in Narborough Road, Leicester last week, writes Raju Vyas. 

The temple is named after Hindu saint Jalaram Bapa and was found by a group of five women in Leicester in 1979. 

They raised £1,001 to open a temple, in Mere Road, and by 1992 the temple had enough money to buy a site in Narborough Road. 

Over the next three years, a £1 million place of worship for Leicester Hindus was built at 80 Narborough Road and the temple relocated there in 1995. 

Pramod Thakkar, chairman of the board of trustees at the temple, said: "The plaque was honouring the elderly ladies and what they did to start the organisation." 

The plaque was dedicated to those who started the temple, its trustees and devotees.

The photo accompanying this article in today's Leicester Mercury shows Chair of Leicester Council of Faiths, Councillor Manjula Sood, at the ceremony.