Source: The Washington Post
On October 31, 1998, the Washington Post issued an article about the growing population of Sikhs in the Washington-Baltimore area, which has doubled in the last five years. Bhai Gurdarshan Singh, priest of Guru Gobind Singh Foundation in Rockville, MD, explains that this recent surge of Sikhs to the area is a result of the family and friends of previous immigrants, who came to the U.S. in the 1970s and 1980s, who have recently decided to emigrate from India. Today, about 1000 Sikh families, comprising 6000-7000 people, reside in D.C., Baltimore, and the greater Virginia and Maryland suburbs of these cities. There are Sikh temples in Burke, Herndon, Silver Spring, Rockville, and Baltimore. The region is the fourth largest Sikh community after New York, Southern California, and Chicago.