Studies of Sikh diasporic religious politics and identity are often framed by territorial assumptions centred on Punjab. This paper examines how everyday spiritual values, aesthetics, and practices shape contested articulations of sacred space across the UK, South Asia, and East Africa. Advancing the concept of sacred worlding as a political ontology, it explores how religious practice, politics, and history intertwine within poetic, craft, and musical expressions of Sikh heritage.
Our findings reveal that diasporic support for creative heritage takes contested material and embodied forms, shaped by intersections of caste, gender, and generation. These tensions reflect and produce divergent territorialised and deterritorialised concepts of Sikh sacred space. We argue that sacred worlding offers a framework for understanding the plural, symbolic, and sensory production of religious projects. It deepens empirical analysis of creative religious expressions, contextualises diasporic settlement journeys, and reframes the geographies of diasporic religious politics across interconnected scales and sites.