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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. [4][2][5][6] The ...
Sikhism in England. The Guru Nanak Gurdwara Smethwick. English Sikhs number over 520,000 people and account for 0.9% of England 's population in 2021, forming the country's fourth-largest religious group. In 2006 there were 352 gurdwaras in England. [1] The largest Sikh populations in the U.K. are in the West Midlands and Greater London.
Sikhism (/ ˈsiːkɪzəm / SEEK-iz-əm), [7] also known as Sikhi (Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖੀ Sikkhī, [ˈsɪk.kʰiː] ⓘ, from Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖ, romanized: Sikh, lit. 'disciple'), is an Indian religion and philosophy [8] that originated in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent around the end of the 15th century CE. It is one of the ...
A sub-district is a local administrative division known as different names in respective countries: called tehsils in India, electoral districts in Canada and wards in England. These are smaller than counties or districts and consist of neighbourhoods and suburbs .
Today, Canada has the largest national Sikh proportion (2.1%) in the world, [13] while the Punjab state in India has the largest Sikh proportion (58%) amongst all administrative divisions in the world. Canada is the only country where Sikhs comprise more than 2.1% of the population.
Peter Bance – historian and author of 'Sikhs in Britain' with technology professional Param Singh at Number 10 Downing Street. Anita Rani – Radio and television presenter. Bali Rai – English author of children's and young adult fiction. Bobby Friction – DJ, television presenter and radio presenter. Daljit Nagra – Poet.
Religion in the United Kingdom is mainly expressed in Christianity, which dominated the land since the 7th century.Results of the 2021 Census for England and Wales showed that Christianity is the largest religion (though makes up less than half of the population), followed by the non-religious, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Judaism, Buddhism, and Taoism.
Sikhs are traditionally an agrarian community, and with the pressures of having only a limited amount of land, high birth rates, and the desire to make a better living, male offspring of Sikh farmers were encouraged to migrate to foreign countries, with significant Sikh communities becoming established in the Philippines, Canada, the UK, US ...