About 80 public school teachers piled onto a pair of buses Tuesday afternoon in suburban Chicago heading to a Sikh Gurdwara – meaning “door to the Guru” or a place of worship – in the village of Palatine.
Once there, the group immersed itself into the religious culture. They donned traditional headcoverings, partook in “langar” – a vegetarian communal meal of rice, beans, curry and bread eaten while sitting on the floor in a sign of equality – toured the Gurdwara building and took in hymns and passages from the Sikh holy book, the Guru Granth Sahib.
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