Disappearing Corners

After months of searching, I’ve finally managed to find where the other Sikh Temple (actually the correct term for this is Gurdwara) is hidden! It’s just at the intersection of Kang Ding Rd and Shan Xi Bei Lu. There you see a Petro Station, and next to the Petro Station is an entrance to a construction materials market——That’s exactly where the Gurdwara hides!

A few old ladies who noticed me holding a camera smiled at me and said, “Hey, young lady, why are there so many photographers interested in this building? The TV station staffs also came here some time ago……This old building…ugly, what’s so interesting about it? Sigh!”

Rubbish dumps, waste water flowing around, flies and mosquitoes and the terrible smell did not stop me from entering the building to see how it’s like. But I swear I don’t want to walk into that ghostly place again.

When I came out of the building, an old man noticed my camera and told me a couple of useful facts about the building.

-It was a Gurdwara before liberation in 1949 (we all know that, don’t we?)
-It served as an office building 10 years ago
-It’s now home for migrant workers, or young restaurant workers
-It has about 10 rooms on the second floor, and each room is about 10sqm
-It is now owned by the Prison Committee in Shanghai, which their headquarters is located on Changyang Rd
-The surrounding areas of the building is already sold to a Zhejiang based land developer for 96 million yuan, they also wanted to acquire the land where the Gurdwara stands, but failed to do so until now; otherwise it’d have been knocked down a long time ago!

I took a few more pictures, and the old man even guided me to the temporary metallic building for construction site workers which I climbed to the top floor. The angle wasn’t perfect, and the place swings and indeed quite scary But the old man was very patient and tried to find a perfect angle for me…….