Langar - The Community Kitchen
Free community meals served to all regardless of caste, class, religion, or status.
Langar is perhaps the most distinctive Sikh institution. Everyone sits together on the floor to eat the same simple food, embodying equality and sharing. It feeds millions daily worldwide.
Let all sit together in rows to share the Guru's Langar; no one should be seen as high or low.
Langar challenged caste barriers by having people of all castes eat together.
Sikh Rehat Maryada
Written about in
- What Sikhism says about seva and service
The free kitchen attached to a gurdwara. Everyone sits on the same floor and eats the same simple food, which is as much the point as the meal is.