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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.
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The second floor features a room to for the Guru Granth Sahib that features a chandelier, a throne with a canopy, and decorative wallpaper, as well as a library and sleeping quarters. Throughout the building, the ceiling is made of plaster and the floors are either tile , marble , or carpet .
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 ...
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. [2]
Jawala and Wasakha would eventually found the gurdwara on South Grant Street in a house, but their ranch would become an important religious, social, and political center associated with the gurdwara. [2] [3] Jawala went on to form the Ghadar Party, a revolutionary movement that called for diaspora Indians to end the British occupation of India ...