The_Sikh_Temple

The Sikh Temple The Sikh Temple It is early morning on Sunday, November 4, 2001. My family is getting ready to go to Gurdwara. As always I am warming up our Dodge Durango a few minutes before and honking to make them hurry up. Finally my mother and sister come; my brother of course has an excuse to stay home. It is a beautiful, clear and sunny day but chilly. Traffic is moving well as we get onto Grand Central Pkwy. There is a Sikh temple close to our home but my mother prefers to go to the one in Richmond Hill because there is more activity there. As we arrive we find parking only a block away from the temple. We walk north towards 118th street and 95th avenue and start seeing people with different color turbans. Some are walking towards the temple and some walking away. As we turn right towards the entrance, there is “1869” carved in the corner of the building. On the left side before the entrance is a shelter with numbered shelves inside. There are three men, two wearing turbans and the other wearing a yellow bandana doing voluntary service of putting people’s shoes in the shelves and education, sikh, people, mother, towards, side, wearing, time, temple, sister, out, one, men, left, hallway, go, come, walk, two, sitting, shoes, service, right, pray, others, minutes, line, hall, guru, getting, few, eyes, church, women, while, walking, wait, turbans