The perfect Gurdwara building is may be a dream but one can try to see what is possible.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of things Sangat can take into account while thinking of building a Gurdwara:
Gurdwara
- Direction and signs
- Parking access
- Are the front and back entry gates large enough for the fire Services
- Paths from parking to main entry
- Running water to wash feet
- Reception facilities including shoe storage, luggage deposit and hand washing facilities
- Wheelchair access from parking to Darbar sahib hall via reception
- Reception to Darbar hall path
- Darbar hall setup, decoration, donation boxes/receipts system
- Seating facilities for the aged / handicapped
- Sound system quality and media screens
- Ventilation
- Washbasin for Pathis behind the Palki
- Quality and knowledge of Sikhi of the priests
- Darbar hall to Langar hall passage
- Langar service
- Kitchen setups
- Hygiene
- Management
- Sarowar facilities if available
- Living facilities for the Pathi (priest) and his family
- Overall budgeting of building and maintenance (including the running costs)
- Crisis management example providing services without donations
Please let us know if we missed any thing. We want this to be list of reference so that nobody can say ‘ Sorry we didn’t think about it ! ‘