{"id":23927,"date":"2016-05-02T20:39:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T00:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=23927"},"modified":"2016-05-02T20:39:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T00:39:04","slug":"anglican-church-converts-to-buddhism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-church-converts-to-buddhism\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican church converts to Buddhism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Church of Canada hasn\u2019t converted to Buddhism in its entirety \u2013 not yet, at least, and not that it would make much difference \u2013 just St. Aidan\u2019s in Kelowna, BC.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/infotel.ca\/newsitem\/anglican-church-to-be-reincarnated-as-buddhist-cultural-centre\/it30167\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/infotel.ca\/news\/medialibrary\/image\/orig-mediaitemid30167-7512.jpg\" width=\"196\" height=\"127\" \/>Anglican church to be reincarnated as Buddhist cultural centre<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>KELOWNA &#8211; St. Aidans church, a small heritage building in Rutland, should soon see new life under an adaptive reuse agreement with the Okanagan Buddhist Cultural Society.<\/p>\n<p>Staff are recommending three parcels near Mugford and Rutland Road North be rezoned and consolidated, then sold to the society along with a memorandum of understanding about the church\u2019s preservation.<\/p>\n<p>Plans are to relocate the historic Anglican church, opened in 1933, to the centre of the consolidated site where it will be restored under a heritage revitalization agreement with the city. The society will build a new entranceway, church hall and develop the old church as a cultural centre.<\/p>\n<p>Built by volunteer labour on donated land, the original church was designed by Enoch Mugford, superintendent of the Black Mountain Irrigation District and local developer Hector Maranda.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Church of Canada hasn\u2019t converted to Buddhism in its entirety \u2013 not yet, at least, and not that it would make much difference \u2013 just St. Aidan\u2019s in Kelowna, BC. From here: Anglican church to be reincarnated as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-church-converts-to-buddhism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[534,2104,1481],"class_list":["post-23927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-bc","tag-buddhism","tag-diocese-of-bc","tag-st-aidans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}