Mourners gathered inside the Oak Creek High School gymnasiumfor the visitation and memorial service.
Friends and family members brought the simple wooden casketsbearing the bodies of those killed into the school for their funeral.
The caskets were accompanied by some two dozen men, theirheads covered in turbans. The men sang prayers during slow and emotionaljourneys from hearses to the gymnasium.
Flowers were arranged at the foot of each casket.
Hundreds of people made their way inside. Everybody took offtheir shoes and covered their heads.
Worshippers were allowed back into the Gurdwara for thefirst time since Sunday's attack yesterday.
US Attorney General Eric Holder, deputed by US PresidentBarack Obama, was to attend the memorial.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was expected to be among theattendees.
The 40-year-old Wade Michael Page, an ex-army veteran, wenton a shooting spree killing six Sikhs on Sunday before dying of aself-inflicted gunshot wound.
A number of priests read the Sikh holy book in a ritehonouring the dead called "Akhand Path."
Organisers distributed orange and black scarves.
Prabhjot Singh, co-founder and trustee of the Sikh Coalitionsaid that today's visitation represents a time of healing and paying respectsfor those killed in Sunday's attack on the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin.
"The religious ceremonies will be done privately overthe next weeks," Singh was quoted by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel assaying.
"Not all of the victim families are here," hesaid. "Some are flying in from India."
