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A Gurdwara is a Sikh place of worship.
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A Gurdwara is a Sikh place of worship, and it has one distinguishing feature from the outside, the Nishan Sahib, or Sikh religious and national flag. This serves a similar purpose to a church steeple, or the minaret on a mosque - it guides the worshipper to the place of worship. Gurdwara means 'the door or house of the Guru'. Guru means spiritual teacher or guide in religious Sikh language. When the tenth and last Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh, was about to die, he decreed that the Sikh Holy Scripture should form then on be their Guru, and it became the Guru Granth Sahib. There are Gurdwaras in most of Britain's major cities. When you go inside a Gurdwara, the most striking feature is the palki, or canopy, over the place where the Guru Granth Sahib is kept during the day. The Guru Granth Sahib is placed on a...
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