Gurudwaras in Sabah

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 […]

Towards the end of the 19th Century, there were a few Sikhs in the Police and Infantry stationed in Lahad Datu. They acquired a piece of land about 1 1/2 acres in size from the British North Borneo Company in 1898. At a later date, the size of this land was reduced to 0.906 acres. […]

One of the earliest Sikh arrivals in Labuan was Sardar Bhagat Singh Sandhu who joined the coal company security service in 1868 and passed away in 1923. His gran son, the well-known Towkey Gurbaksh Singh Sandhu founded the first Indian Association ofNLabuanin 1936. He was later made the chairman of the Labuan Gurdwara Sahib building […]

The Sikh Sangat in Tawau led by Sardar Darbara Singh decided to construct the Gurdwara Sahib building in 1988. The foundation stone of this Gurdwara Sahib was laid by Giani Chanan Singh from the Labuan Gurdwara Sahib in April 1988. This Gurdwara Sahib complex covers an area of 0.25 acres, which has been donated by […]

The first Gurdwara Sahib in Jesselton (renamed Kota Kinabalu in 1963) existed in the compound of the Government Armed Constabulary Headquarters, approximately 500 yards from the site of the present Gurdwara Sahib building. In 1924, the Police Commandant made a request to the Sikhs to relocate their Gurdwara Sahib to another site due to security […]