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ORLANDO, Fla. — Leaders of a Hindu congregation hoping to build a new temple in Gotha will have to find a different location. Orange County commissioners voted 5-2 on Tuesday to reject the congregation’s appeal of a zoning board ruling which concluded the proposed temple with a 43-foot-tall spire would be a “detrimental intrusion” in the west Orange rural settlement. The spire would have been the tallest structure in Gotha and the 33,000-square-foot temple three times larger than any other building in the town, founded in 1885 by German immigrant H. A. Hempel and named for his birthplace. The …

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