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A Gurdwara (Punjabi: ਗੁਰਦੁਆਰਾ, gurdu'ārā or ਗੁਰਦਵਾਰਾ, gurdvārā; lit. ' the doorway to the Guru ' ) is the Sikh place of worship and may be referred to as a Sikh temple.
The second phase was completed in April 2011, [4] making it the largest gurdwara in North America [5] at 90,000 square feet (8,400 m 2). The chief architect and designer of the project is the late Malkiat Singh Sidhu. The largest audience at the San Jose Gurdwara was on opening day when some 20,000 people were thought to have come.
A gurdwara has a main hall called a darbar, a community kitchen called a langar, [7] and other facilities. The essential features of a gurdwara are these public spaces, the presence of the holy book and eternal Sikh guru the Granth Sahib , [ 17 ] the pursuit of the Sikh Rehat Maryada (the Sikh code of conduct and convention), and the provision ...
National Gurdwara is a Sikh gurdwara located in Washington, D.C. Located on Massachusetts Avenue , the National Gurdwara is the first and only Sikh institution in the capital of the United States . It is located near the National Cathedral , Naval Observatory and American University .
Though the oldest existing gurdwara on the continent, having opened in 1911, it is the third-oldest to be built in Canada and North America. The first Gurdwara in Canada was built by early Sikh-Canadian settlers in Golden, British Columbia in 1905, [2] [3] which would later be destroyed by fire in 1926. [4]
The Gurdwara has a main Langar hall and prayer hall. The temple led to a "renaissance of the Sikh community in Yuba City," including the 1980 establishment of the local Sikh parade, which has become one of the largest Sikh festivals outside India.