THE SIKH RELIGION
Ramgarhia Sikh Gurdwara A reassuring site for a person who may be visiting a Gurdwara for the first time.
Ramgarhia Gurdwara in Bradford
This is a pictorial tour of the Ramgarhia Gurdwara in Bradford. Many of the photographs are taken inside the building. Use the links at the bottom of the main page to navigate.
The Sri Guru Singh Sabha Gurdwara Lots of useful information here about the Southall Gurdwara. Photgraphs and articles as well.
The Langar (dining room) A brief explanation and a smashing photographs taken at the Gurdwara.
Guru Nanak The rainbow family homepage seems to have the ability to give useful information in a form that can be easily handled. This would be my first stop when looking for information about the Guru.
Guru Nanak A rather wordy description of Guru Nanak's life. There are some useful photographs as well. This is taken from The encyclopedia of Sikhism
Life of Guru Nanak The life of Guru Nanak according to Sandeep Singh Brar. Fairly thorough but only one picture,
For many people the turban is the only thing they know about the Sikh religion. "Sikhs wear turbans!"
Here is some more useful information about this piece of distinctive head dress.
The Turban A useful site on the importance of the turban, how to tie one and why Sikh's wear them. This is a "Turban Homepage"
France and the problem of the turban A BBC report from January 2004 about sikhs wearing the turban in school.
Turbans R Us The final word on turbans from Turbans R Us.
It's all good stuff.
Guru Grath Sahib This site gives a very useful short introduction to the book with links to pages on authors, contents, translation of the work etc.
SGPC on the Guru Granth Sahib A potted version of the book. Very usefulfor those simply wishing to look up main ideas.
Translation of the Granth There is a translation into English of the Guru Granth Sahib. It is carefully annotated with good explanations.
CanTeach on the Granth A careful explanation of the book. The page is clearly intended for school use
BBC World Service
The BBC World service has a guide to the religions of the world. This page is certainly helpful for understanding the nature of Sikhism and there is a chance to lean a bit more about the religions.
Khalsa Singhs (Tat Khalsa) All you would ever want to know about this fellowship including the practice of baptism. Even so it is quite a wordy site and rather long.
Khalsa - the five Ks This page on Sikh customs is well laid out and very attractive. I recommend a visit to it.
Calendar dates Sikhism changed the way in which it calculates its festivals in 1999. All is very simply explained here by "Sikhism Home Page."
Sikh Calendar This is a very full, but very useful, look at all the festivals celebrated by Sikhs each year.
Sikh Calendar What the Sikh calendar might look like in diagram form. It took a lot of working out!
REVISION QUIZ
Quiz Try this revision quiz on Sikhism. Don't just do the wordsearch - try the questions as well.