Gurudwaras in Far East

By the late 19″ Century Kiang town was an important commercial trading center. Many Sikhs were employed in the Federated Malay States Police to maintain law and order. Gradually, more Sikhs arrived in Kiang and became watchmen, money lenders, dairy farmers and bullock cart operators and drivers. In 1900, there were aboute 50 Sikh in […]

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By the 1950’s there were a few Sikhs residing in Pontian who were mostly employed as watchmen. Some of these Sikhs were engaged in money lending while others were in private business. To serve their religious needs they decided to build .a Gurdwara Sahib. The inaugural general meeting was held at the Indian Association Hall […]

Around 1936, there were about 100 Sikh families who lived around the old Ampang Village area. Some of these Sikhs were attached to the Ampang Police Station while others were dairy farmers. However, a majority of these Sikhs were employed by the numerous tin mines in this area as watchmen or general workers. A prominent […]

In the early 1900’s, there were a few Sikhs employed in the Police force. Some worked in the tin mines while others ventured into dairy farming. Between 1908 and 1910, they built their first Gurdwara Sahib, which had wooden walls and a roof of zinc sheets, on a piece of land, about is 0.77O acres […]

The Dharamsala Gurdwara is managed by a Trust known as ‘The Registered Board of Trustees of Havela Singh s/o ThakarDas Dharamsala’. This Trust also operates a free medical clinic, which has two paid doctors to treat needy patients. The Dharamsala Gurdwara is located in the Penthouse on the 8th Floor of Wisma ThakarDas and is […]

In the early years of the 20′ Century, there were about 60 Sikh families staying around the Buntong area. Most of these Sikhs worked in the various tin mines located nearby or were dairy farmers and bullock cart operators. In 1908, these Sikhs built a single storey Gurdwara Sahib in the area now known as […]

In 1857, the Chinese uprising started in the gold mining town of Bau, which is about 20 miles (about 33 kilometres) from the town of Kuching. Sir James Brooke, the first white Rajah of Sarawak, fled to Singapore where he took refuge with the Governor of the Straits Settlements. He subsequently recruited personnel for the […]

In the late 1980’s, the Gurdwara Sahib Guru Khalsa Sabha Sembawang (later known as Sembawang Sikh Temple) and the Gurdwara Sahib Jalan Kayu were served notices by the Government to vacate their premises for reDevelopment, In 1991, a parcel of leasehold land (30 years lease) was offered for sale by the Government for the construction […]