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Gurdwara Sahib Stockton
Religion
AffiliationSikhism
Location
Location1930 S Sikh Temple St, Stockton, CA 95206
Geographic coordinates37°56′03″N 121°16′29″W / 37.93406°N 121.27475°W / 37.93406; -121.27475
Architecture
Date establishedOctober 24, 1912
Website
http://stocktongurdwara.org/
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.

The Pacific Coast Khalsa Diwan Society founded the gurdwara in 1912.

History

Interior in 1916

Jawala Singh, a successful potato farmer in the San Joaquin Valley, leased a 500-acre ranch with business partner Wasakha Singh in Holtville, next to Stockton. Immigrating Punjabi Sikh farmers would perform prayers in a room on the farm with the Guru Granth Sahib. 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.

Jawala went on to form the Ghadar Party, a revolutionary movement that called for diaspora Indians to end the British occupation of India. The Stockton Gurdwara would serve as an important benefactor of the Ghadar Party, sponsoring the first Punjabi language newspaper in the United States, The Ghadar, among other support.

A 2015 address at the gurdwara

Notable people

Dalip Singh Saund, Democrat CA-29, the first Sikh American, the first Asian American, the first Indian American and the first member of a non-Abrahamic faith to be elected to Congress. His studies at University of California, Berkeley, were sponsored by the Stockton Gurdwara.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Stockton Gurdwara – Pioneering Punjabis Digital Archive". pioneeringpunjabis.ucdavis.edu. Retrieved June 26, 2018.
  2. Van Hear, Nicholas (2005), "Refugee Diasporas or Refugees in Diaspora", Encyclopedia of Diasporas, Springer US, pp. 580–589, doi:10.1007/978-0-387-29904-4_60, ISBN 9780306483219
  3. ^ Singh, Pashaura; Fenech, Louis E., eds. (March 1, 2014). The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199699308.001.0001. ISBN 9780199699308.
  4. "History". Retrieved June 26, 2018.
  5. CA State Legislature. "Relative to the 100-year anniversary of the Sikh American".


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