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UK: Ilford courtrooms that were once used to settle family disputes and civil matters are set to become a community centre linked to a Sikh gurdwara following a seven-figure deal. Representatives from the Guru Nanak Satsang Karamsar gurdwara in High ...

Cambridge,UK: The first Sikh temple in Cambridgeshire has been opened – in a former pub. More than 100 worshippers and civic leaders gathered yesterday to celebrate the transformation of The Grove in Arbury Court into Cambridge Gurdwara, giving the county’s ...

UK: Plans for a new primary free school which will initially be based on the site of a Sikh temple in inner-city Leeds have been unveiled. The proposed Khalsa Science Academy would not be a faith school but would be ...

Paris, France: The UN Human Rights Committee has ruled that France’s ban on the wearing of “conspicuous” religious symbols in schools – introduced in a law adopted in March 2004 – violated a Sikh student’s right to manifest his religion, ...