Hardial Dhir Architect was chosen to reconstruct and design the community centre and additions to the Gurdwara.
[citation needed] In 1990, a school for teaching of Punjabi language and Sikh Studies was started in this Gurdwara.
Eminent Sikh historian Dr Harjinder Singh Dilgeer acted as the Director of the project.
[citation needed] Much money was raised, however the building still gets overcrowded on special days like Bandhi Chhor ("Release from Confinement", held according to Nanakshahi calendar on same date as Diwali) and Vaisakhi and New Year (December 31).
[citation needed] The temple has been the subject of several controversies such as a donation to the African National Congress in 1990,[5] a dispute over whether Sikh marriages can be performed in a hotel which serves alcohol and meat, and when a Sikh priest stayed at the temple, thus defying a deportation order.