Old Bethpage synagogue welcomes Sikhs
Quick ReadWhen a Sikh temple in Plainview was shuttered in June by Town of Oyster Bay officials for code violations, it left the group with no place to worship.
Photo credit: Newsday/John Paraskevas | When members of the Guru Gobind Singh Sikh Center in Plainview could no longer use their house of worship in Plainview, the Temple Beth Elohim synogogue in Old Bethpage came to the rescue and offered the synogogue's social room for the group to worship in on Sundays. (Oct. 18, 2011)
When a Sikh temple in Plainview was shuttered in June by Town of Oyster Bay officials for code violations, it left the group with no place to worship.
Now the group has teamed up with an unusual partner so they can keep praying: a Reform Jewish synagogue in Old Bethpage that is offering its building to the Sikhs once a week.
So far, the groups say the arrangement is working out wonderfully...
