A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 17, Offlow Hundred (Part). Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1976.
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A P Baggs. G C Baugh. C R J Currie. Johnson D A, 'Walsall: Non-Christian religions', A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 17, Offlow Hundred (Part), (London, 1976), pp. 249. British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/staffs/vol17/p249 [accessed 2 July 2024].
A P Baggs. G C Baugh. C R J Currie. Johnson D A. "Walsall: Non-Christian religions", in A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 17, Offlow Hundred (Part), (London, 1976) 249. British History Online, accessed July 2, 2024, https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/staffs/vol17/p249.
Baggs, A P. Baugh, G C. Currie, C R J. Johnson D A. "Walsall: Non-Christian religions", A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 17, Offlow Hundred (Part), (London, 1976). 249. British History Online. Web. 2 July 2024, https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/staffs/vol17/p249.
NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS.
The Guru Nanak Sikh temple in West Bromwich Street was registered in 1964 and rebuilt on the same site in 1971-2. Designed by G. Wright of Bloxwich, the new temple is of brick with concrete dressings. It consists of two floors, with a kitchen and hall on the ground-floor and the sanctuary on the first-floor approached by separate staircases for men and women. While the temple was being rebuilt the Sikhs met in the Congregational church in Wednesbury Road. (fn. 1) The Nanak Sar temple in the former Primitive Methodist chapel in Darlaston Road was registered in 1965. (fn. 2)
The Muslim Prayer House at no. 56 South Street was registered in 1966, (fn. 3) a mosque at no. 102 Wednesbury Road in 1969, (fn. 4) and the Pakistan Welfare Society Mosque at no. 97 Rutter Street in 1971. (fn. 5)