A council plan to sell the site of Peterborough’s only Hindu temple has sparked widespread concern and opposition from the British Hindu community, who say the move threatens to uproot a key spiritual and cultural hub serving more than 13,000 people across eastern England. The issue has now been raised before the Mayor by MP Bob Blackman.

The Bharat Hindu Samaj Mandir, founded in 1986 in the New England Complex of Peterborough, has for nearly four decades been at the heart of community life for Hindus from Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, and Lincolnshire. Owned by the Peterborough City Council, the complex is now being placed for open sale as part of the authority’s programme to reduce public debt through asset liquidation, as per a report by the BBC.

On Wednesday, the issue drew political atte

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