There is a building on my street with the above label. Can anyone advise me as to its purpose? Typing it into Yahoo has not helped me much (other than some undefined relationship to the Punjab), and the dictionary is no use either. This is a little piece of ignorance that grates on me every time I walk past.
Thanks
pan
Where are you? That might help a little…
This is what a Google search on this term produces.
I think it’s some sort of religious center.
So now I know it’s something to do with Sikhism. Thanks Coldfire. Can anyone help me be be a little more specific though? Are we talking cultural centre, meeting spot or place of worship here?
Oh - I’m in London (pretty much), but I think that this isn’t something peculiar to my loaction.
pan
A gurdwara is a Sikh place of worship. All the gurdwara websites your search turned up seem to have been named after Guru Singh. Remember that all Sikh males take the surname/title Singh - not all of them are necessarily named after the same Guru.
I’m looking up what a sabha is (it’s another word for a building as far as I cal tell) right now - will post again presently.
Ah - I think these gurdwaras are named after Guru Gobind Singh, who was the tenth master of Sikhism. The other nine gurus had different names - AFAIK Sikh men started taking the name Singh after the 10th Guru.
Sabha simply means meeting house, and is not specific to Sikhism, as I have found references to Hindu sabhas, following a brisk search on Google.
Wonderful. Thanks Tansu.
pan
I’m not sure…tried backwards, it’s:
Ah, bash ginsu rug
Iris a raw drug.
Does everything come back to violence and drugs?!
::wanders off muttering about “kids today”::
I think that should be “Sri Guru Singh”, not “Siri”. Makes more sense (“Sri” is a popular Indian honorific) and there are lots of web hits on “Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha”.