A GROUP of Sikh's staged an hour long protest on Sunday, in a bid to stop Sikh holy scriptures being taken into a Watford community centre.
More than 80 Sikhs from the town's Gurdwara (temple) and others from across the UK gathered yesterday outside the Multi Racial Community Centre in Durban Road.
They were there to protest peacefully at a group of Sikhs who were intending to use the centre for a religious gathering on Sunday.
As part of this gathering they were proposing to take the Guru Granth Sahib, Sikh holy scriptures revered as the embodiment of god, into the centre.
The protestors, clad in vibrant turbans and wearing ceremonial knives, were angered by the way the scriptures had been brought to the centre, and the fact they were to be taken inside.
They demanded to be allowed to take the Guru Granth Sahib to the Watford Gurdwara in King's Close.
After an hour of protest around the car which carried the scriptures, an agreement was reached with the police, and the protestors were allowed to respectfully remove the Guru Granth Sahib and take it to the Gurdwara.
A full report see Friday's Watford Observer.
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