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British Sikhs number over 535,000 people and account for 0.8% of the British population as of 2021, forming the United Kingdom's fourth-largest religious group.According to the 2021 United Kingdom census, British Sikhs numbered 535,517, with 520,092 in England, 10,988 in Scotland, 4,048 in Wales, and 389 in Northern Ireland.
The permanent arrival of Sikhism in England is dated to 1850 A.D. with the arrival of Maharajah Duleep Singh (last ruler of the Sikh Empire). The first Sikh place of worship, called a Gurdwara, was opened in 1911 in London and this was partly funded by the Maharaja of Patiala. [4]
Rt Hon Jeremy Corbyn MP being presented with the British Sikh Report 2018 Satinder Sartaaj the famous singer of Sufi songs signing a copy of the British Sikh Report. The BSR was founded by Jasvir Singh CBE in 2012 and is created annually by a team of research analysts, lawyers, academics, social workers, senior consultants and managers who work on the BSR on a voluntary basis. [1]
Nishkam SWAT (Punjabi: ਨਿਸ਼ਕਾਮ ਸਵਾਤ) is a Sikh charity which supports the homeless within India, Argentina and the United Kingdom. [ 1 ] Nishkam SWAT's work
The Sikh Temple: Leeds [6] Ramgarhia Board Gurdwara Leeds: Leeds [7] Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak Jatha: Leeds [8] Sri Guru Nanak Sikh Temple: Leeds [9] Gurdwara Guru Kalgidhar Sahib: Leeds [10] Guru Nanak Gurdwara: Huddersfield [11] Guru Tegh Bahadur Gurdwara: Huddersfield [12] Gurdwara Singh Sabha: Huddersfield [13]
In the UK, there has been a 169% in anti-Sikh attacks in 2021–22 compared to the previous year. [6] Some of these attacks involved the forced removal of turbans worn by Sikhs. [6] The Sikh Council UK developed a website called Sikh Aware UK to improve the reporting of anti-Sikh hate crimes and incidents, however it was not successful. [2]
The Sikh Missionary Society UK is a British charity (registered number 262404) based in Southall in West London. It was founded in 1969 [1] to support and extend the work of three Sikhs, G.S.Sivia, G.S.Sidhu and Kirpal Singh Rai, working in Kent who had produced a free leaflet called "Guru Nanak for children".
During the reign of King Edward VII the first Sikh society in the UK was founded in 1908, it was called The Khalsa Jatha. [172] The first Sikh Gurdwara was established in 1911, in Shepherd's Bush, Putney, London. The first wave of Sikh migration came in the 1940s, mostly of men from the Punjab seeking work in industries such as foundries and ...