Thursday, August 9, 2012
The local Sikh community held a candlelight Vigil at the Marsh Chapel at Boston University in honor of those killed and injured in the shooting of a Sikh temple in Oak Creek Wisconsin.
Members of the local Sikh community joined the Sikh Association at Boston University (SABU) on Wednesday evening for a vigil at Boston University's Marsh Chapel. The vigil honored those who were killed or injured in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, on Sunday, August 6, when white supremacist Wade Michael Page opened fire inside the gurudwara (temple), killing six people and injuring three others. Page was also killed. See here for more about the initial response to the incident in the Somerville and Medford Sikh community. Wednesday evening's vigil began with prayer accompanied by music (see video). Br. Larry Whitney of Marsh Chapel, Harleen Gerwal, a senior at B.U. and the Secretary of SABU, Gurteg Singh, President of SABU, Laura Everett, …
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Leaders of Boston's Sikh community will meet in the next day or two to plan vigils and showings of support.
Members of the Greater Boston Sikh community who worship in Medford—with strong connections in Somerville—are distressed by the Sunday shooting at a temple in Wisconsin that left seven people, including the gunman, dead. Speaking Sunday night, Gurinber Singh, president of Gurudwara Guru Nanak Darbar, a temple at 226 Mystic Avenue in Medford, and a volunteer in the community, said, "We are really shocked at this moment." "We couldn't believe it," he said. Another leader in the Boston Sikh community also expressed shock while condemning the shooting. Worshipers at the Medford temple, or gurdwara (sometimes spelled gurudwara), were in observations from about 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, and therefore didn't learn of the news until later Sunday …
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Sikhs from Somerville, Medford, Cambridge and Boston were trying to learn more about the circumstances of a deadly shooting in Wisconsin, according to a leader in the Boston Sikh community.
Members of the Greater Boston Sikh community were condemning a Sunday shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin that left at least seven people dead. At the same time, the local Sikh community was trying to learn more information about the circumstances of the shooting. Darfhan Singh, secretary of a gurdwara—a Sikh place of worship—that recently moved from Somerville to Everett, said members of the Boston Sikh community are "listening to the television and radio" in an attempt to learn more about what happened. "The investigation is going on," Singh said, cautioning against jumping to conclusions. Although Singh, who was visiting North Carolina Sunday when news of the shooting broke, did not know anyone in the Oak Creek, Wis., area, where …
