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24 October 1912[Web]

Stockton gurdwara opens

The first gurdwara in the United States opens at Stockton, California.

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Wikipedia credits Wasakha Singh Dadehar and Jawala Singh with establishing it.

It opened five years after a white mob drove Sikh mill workers out of Bellingham, Washington, in 1907.[Web]

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