Sikh Temple - God Is There For Everybody - For Sikhs

First established with 15th-century India, your Sikh belief is often a monotheistic religion, significance its enthusiasts confidence one God.

Sikhism has been founded by means of Sri Guru Nanak Sahib Ji and uses your teachings with eight "gurus."

"'Guru' usually means a chief which takes someone from night in order to light, significance out of ignorance to knowledge," mentioned Surinderpal Singh Karla, your delegate in the World Sikh Council in addition to a new congregant associated with your Sikh temple inside Palatine.

The Sikh holy book, called the actual Guru Granth Sahib, includes bible along with philosophy.

"It shows in which God can there be for everybody, and all people are his or her daughters plus daughters," Karla said.

Sikh strict establishments operate with not a central government, counting instead about religious communities at large.

"It's some sort of democracy," said Karla, who seem to joined a formal procedure as soon as your Sikh Temple involving Wisconsin in Oak Creek ended up being completed. "It all depends around the individual community."

The congregation of the Sikh Temple involving Wisconsin has 350 to 400 members, according to this temple's website.

It has been set up with 1997 by the very few dozen households this obtained frequently around the south part of Milwaukee with rented facilities just before making your permanent facility. After outgrowing this gurudwara, or maybe property of worship, this congregation carried out construction on the 17,500-square-foot temple in Oak Creek, Wis., some years ago.

According to the temple's website, them comprises protecting for a hundred cars, your catalogue and educational breathing space for kids as well as living quarters.

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