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View of the Sikh Center of San Francisco Bay Area Sikh Festival and Parade, San Francisco Civic Center June 10, 2018. The Sikh Center of San Francisco Bay Area (also known as Gurdwara Sahib of El Sobrante) is a Sikh gurdwara in the hills of unincorporated El Sobrante, California, in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Sikh Gurdwara of San Jose is a gurdwara (a Sikh place of worship) located in the Evergreen district of San Jose, California. It was founded in 1984 by leaders of the then-rapidly growing community of Sikhs in the area. [1] It is the largest Gurdwara in the world outside of India. [2] [3]
From 17th November 1968 the Gurdwara was located at Clarence Place. Originally a chapel, this site was being used as a warehouse for the previous two decades, when purchased by the Sikh community. [17] [28] [29] [14] The site was purchased for £13,000, and assistance was given in organising by the then MP Albert Murray. [14]
First Sikh temple in the United States, built in Stockton in 1912 (photo taken in 1997) Gurdwara Sahib Stockton is a gurdwara located in the city of Stockton, California. It is notable for being the first Sikh house of worship in the United States. [1] The Pacific Coast Khalsa Diwan Society founded the gurdwara in 1912.
By the mid-1980s, between 200-300 Sikhs attended Sunday services at the temple, and in 1986, the temple was demolished to make way for a larger one. [ 5 ] The new, larger temple opened in 1996, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] with its dedication ceremony presided over by "the supreme and highest spiritual and temporal authority of the Sikh religion visiting from ...
Gurdwara Nanak Jhira Sahib was built in 1948 and is dedicated to the first Sikh guru, Guru Nanak. Bidar has a very long association with Sikhism as this is the home town of Bhai Sahib Singh , one of the Panj Pyare (five beloved ones), who offered to sacrifice their heads and were later baptised as the first members of the Khalsa .
A gurdwara or gurudwara (Punjabi: ਗੁਰਦੁਆਰਾ, romanized: gurdu'ārā, lit. 'Door of the Guru') is a place of assembly and worship in Sikhism, but its normal meaning is "place of guru" or "Home of guru".
The financial situation of the Society depended on the number of Sikhs living in British Columbia, and donations rose considerably as more Sikhs came to the province. The population of Sikhs rose in the period of 1904–1908 to 5,185, but fell to 2,342 in 1911. The Sikh population dwindled even more, to 1,099, as the year 1918 approached.