To meet the increasing demand for the Guru Granth Sahib among the Sikh community of America and Canada
Our Bureau
Tracy, CA
The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has decided to set up its first printing press in the US dedicated to the publishing of the saroops (scriptures) of Guru Granth Sahib. This decision was taken recently during the SGPC executive committee’s meeting in Amritsar.
Currently, there are only two centres in India – one at the Golden Temple complex in Amritsar and another in Delhi – that can print the Guru Granth Sahib. From where the saroops are dispatched to gurdwaras across the world as per the Sikh Maryada (code of conduct).
In a departure from the past, this will also be the first centre outside India to publish the saroops of Guru Granth Sahib. As per SGPC, this press is being set up in the US to meet the increasing demand for the Guru Granth Sahib among the Sikh community of America and Canada.
This press will be established in Tracy City California to publish the ‘holy saroops’ of Guru Granth Sahib along with a Dharam Prachar Kendra (religious preaching centre) of the SGPC at Yuba City.
Created under the Sikh Gurdwaras Act of 1925, the SGPC is the sole body authorised to print and distribute the Guru Granth Sahib. Considered to be a living Guru by the Sikhs, the printing of the Guru Granth Sahib has to be done following a strict code of conduct. No private or government entity can print the Guru Granth Sahib, nor is its copying or cyclostyling allowed.
