History Gurdwara Tanjung Priok 1925-2015

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History of Guru Nanak Sikh Temple (Tanjung Priok Gurdwara)

By Sardar Mohindar Singh Gill

Alfred Holt and Company, trading as Blue Funnel Line, was a UK shipping company that was founded in 1866 and operated merchant ships for 122 years. It was one of the UK’s largest ship owning and operating companies. This company also operated in the Malaya region of Singapore-Malaysia-Indonesia. It operated in Jakarta at the Tanjung Priok harbor during the 1920s. There were around 20 security workers working for this company at the harbor and all of them were Sikhs…more.

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