Gurudwaras in Malaysia

Around the late 1910s, there were a few Sikhs who were dairy farmers and bullock cart drivers. Some of the Sikhs also worked in the mental hospital that was established later at Tanjong Rambutan. Around 1919, these Sikhs established a Gurdwara Sahib at the present site, which is about 100 feet x 400 feet in […]

At the beginning of the 20th Century, there were a few Sikhs employed in the Sarawak Police Force stationed at Miri. With the opening of the Shell petroleum refinery, Sikhs were also employed in various posts. By the 1930s, there were about 240 Sikhs in Miri, including their families. The first Gurdwara Sahib building in […]

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 late 1920’s, there was a large community of Sikhs residing in Tanah Rata. Some of them were contractors while others were employed as general workers in the various construction projects in Cameron Highlands. Some of these Sikhs were drivers, woodcutters, vegetable farmers or worked in the tea estate. The first Gurdwara Sahib was […]

In the late 1880’s, there were a few Sikhs residing in the Sungei Besi area. They were mostly employed in the Police Force or worked as cowherds, farmers and watchmen (security guards). Around 1890, a building committee led by its President, Sardar Lachman Singh, established the first Gurdwara Sahib in Sungei Besi. This Gurdwara was […]

In 1881, there was one contingent of Straits Settlements Police stationed in the compound of Fort Cornwallis, Penang. The Sikh Police personnel in this contingent were given a room at the top of the fort to be used as a place of prayers. They converted this room into their Gurdwara Sahib and installed therein their […]

In the early years of the 20th Century, the Sikhs residing around the Kopisan, Tambun areas, in the Mukim of Ulu Kinta, mostly worked in the nearby tin mines or were dairy farmers. Around 1915, these Sikhs built a Gurdwara Sahib building at the 5′ Mile Kopisan, Tambun area on former tin mining land. This […]

In the 1920’s, there was a small community of Sikhs in Batu Gajah who were employed in the various tin mines or were dairN farmers. These Sikhs built their Gurdwara Sahib, a single storey wooden building, in 1927, close to the site of the present Gurdwara Sahib. The Gurdwara Sahib land, was gazetted as a […]

Perai is a small industrial town located opposite the Island of Penang on the West Coast of Peninsular Malaysia. It was at one time the hub of the Malayan Railways and the Police Force. In the early years of the 20th Century, there were a few Sikh families in Perai. Some of these Sikhs were […]

In the early years of the 20th Century, there were a few Sikhs in the Police Force known as the British North Borneo Company’s Government Armed Constabulary. In 1924, these Sikhs built the first Gurdwara Sahib building in Sandakan. It was a double storey wooden structure built on a land area of, 10,890 square feet […]

Sikh personnel and their families, most of whom were in the Police Force, settled in the Muar area in the late 1920’s. To serve their religious needs, they rented the upstairs of a shophouse, which was then located on the site of the present Semangat Motors. Very soon, they left this place and rented a […]