[1] The Pacific Coast Khalsa Diwan Society founded the gurdwara in 1912.

Immigrating Punjabi Sikh farmers would perform prayers in a room on the farm with the Guru Granth Sahib.

[1] Jawala and Wasakha would eventually found the gurdwara on South Grant Street in a house, but their ranch would become an important religious, social, and political center associated with the gurdwara.

[2][3] Jawala went on to form the Ghadar Party, a revolutionary movement that called for diaspora Indians to end the British occupation of India.

His studies at University of California, Berkeley, were sponsored by the Stockton Gurdwara.