English Sikhs

English Sikhs

The arrival of Sikhism in England is relatively recent and at Census 2011 there were 420,196 Sikhs and in excess of 300 gurudwaras in England with the largest communities in London, Bedford, Coventry, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Bradford, Leeds, Liverpool and Huddersfield. Leicester is also important having the largest Sikh community in the East Midlands and the eighth largest Sikh community in England. Leicester is also the home of the Guru Nanak Sikh Museum, the first such museum in the UK. As of 2011, the five English_local_authorities with the largest percentage of Sikhs are, in descending order, Slough (10.8%), Wolverhampton, Hounslow, Sandwell and Ealing.