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The Sikh Temple of Spokane is inviting the community to an open house at its gurdwara later this month.
A spokeswoman for the Sikh Temple said in an announcement that the open house will be April 24 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., in correlation with the Sikh holy day of Vaisakhi.
Vaisakhi is traditional festival which celebrates the founding of the Sikh community.
In March the Sikh Temple of Spokane was vandalized. According to an announcement, cleanup following the recent break-in and vandalism is mostly done, but the temple is waiting for replacement of holy items, such as its sacred text, to come from India.
The gurdwara is located at 1420 N. Barker Road.
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of SpokaneFāVS.com, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.
