King Visits Gurdwara: Charles Lauds ‘Langar’, Sikh Community Service During Covid

In a nod to Britain’s diversity, King Charles paid obeisance at a newly-constructed gurdwara at Luton, a city simply out of doors London, and mingled with the devotees. Children from throughout faiths had been gift to welcome him, maintaining the Union Jack and the Sikh flag of ‘Nishan Sahib’. With pics and videos, social media posts through the royal family’s officers handles stated the king additionally met volunteers who run the Luton Sikh Soup Kitchen Stand, “which presents vegetarian warm food seven days a week, twelve months a yr on the Gurdwara”.

He additionally lauded the network for his or her offerings at some point of the Covid pandemic over the last nearly 3 years. It ran a pop-up Covid vaccine clinic, which changed into one of the first of its type withinside the UK, stated the royal family’s Instagram submit. The Gurdwara recommended different locations of worship to address incorrect information concerning vaccine hesitancy, it added.

The UK has over five lakh Sikhs who account for approximately 1 according to cent of the country’s population. The UK Parliament has had numerous Sikh members — Labour Party’s Tanmanjit Singh Dhesi presently being amongst outstanding MPs.

On the royal family’s Insta submit today, amongst those who commented changed into person who stated: “KC at his best. He is the Head of the Church of England. But he has often mentioned being a Leader/Friend of the Faiths. I consider that his coronary heart is nicely meant, opposite to different views.”