Gurdwara Sahib of Stockton
Place of worship
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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.[1]
| Gurdwara Sahib Stockton | |
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| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Sikhism |
| Location | |
| Location | 1930 S Sikh Temple St, Stockton, CA 95206 |
 Interactive map of Gurdwara Sahib Stockton | |
| Coordinates | 37°56′03″N 121°16′29″W |
| Architecture | |
| Established | October 24, 1912 |
| Website | |
| http://stocktongurdwara.org/ | |
The Pacific Coast Khalsa Diwan Society founded the gurdwara in 1912.[2][3]
History
Jawala Singh,[4] 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.[1] 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.[5][6]
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Jawala went on to form the Ghadar Party, a revolutionary movement that called for diaspora Indians to end the British occupation of India.[6] 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.[7]
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.[8]
Gallery
First Sikh temple in the United States, built in Stockton in 1912 (photo taken in 1997)
A 2015 address at the gurdwara
