Visitors from across the country show support at Sikh Temple

OAK CREEK (WITI) -- Visitors from across the country are making their way to Oak Creek to show support for the Sikh community during the one-year anniversary of the Sikh Temple shooting.

The holy book will be read for 48 hours, nonstop, to mark the anniversary of the day six worshipers were gunned down inside the temple. A prayer service is open to all.

"We love one another. To be one. We are all the same. We give free food. We have temples with four doors on each side that represent that everybody's equal," said Anju Chawla.

Chawla traveled from Miami where she works with a project aimed at building Sikh schools and promoting the message of the religion, which she believes too few people understand.

"We have still not been able to capture the true meaning of the universe that we are all one. We are all the same -- that there is the same light that is in everybody," said Chawla.

Banners from around the U.S. hang inside the temple with messages of support. Vijayant Singh, whose friend is a member of the temple, came in from Boston.

"I feel like we're all a big family, so supporting Wisconsin families means a lot to me," said Singh. "It's just a way of showing support -- just saying the Sikh community is one big, whole family."

Kavi Singh, a volunteer for the Sikh coalition, remembers the day he heard about the shootings.

"All of a sudden it hit home. It hit home because this is your family. It's our community. No matter where we are in the world, if any kind of tragedy happens, not even just to Sikhs, God forbid it were to happen to anybody, we would feel the pain," said Singh.