Sacred Places
26 places found
SikhismGurdwara Sri Hemkund Sahib
Chamoli district · India · gurdwara
The highest gurdwara in the world, a five sided sanctuary at 4,632 metres beside a glacial lake ringed by seven peaks, where the Bachittar Natak says Guru Gobind Singh Ji performed tapasya in his previous life. Reached only by a 19 km Himalayan trek, open late May to early October.
SikhismGurdwara Sri Tarn Taran Sahib
Tarn Taran · India · gurdwara
Founded by Guru Arjan Dev Ji, the fifth Guru, in 1590, Gurdwara Sri Tarn Taran Sahib holds the largest sarovar of any gurdwara, and draws pilgrims each Masya, the moonless night, in a devotion that repeats every month rather than once a year.
SikhismGurudwara Bangla Sahib
New Delhi · India · gurdwara
Delhi's largest gurdwara, raised over the well where the child eighth Guru, Guru Har Krishan Sahib Ji, gave water to the city's smallpox-stricken in 1664 and then gave his own life in that same service.
Sikhism
Gurudwara Buddha Johad
Dabla · India · gurdwara
A Sikh gurdwara standing in what was once open jungle near Dabla village in Rajasthan's Sri Ganganagar district, raised to honour the courage of Bhai Sukha Singh and Bhai Mehtab Singh, who avenged the desecration of Harmandir Sahib in 1740.
SikhismGuru ka Tal
Agra · India · gurdwara
Gurdwara Dukh Nivaran Sahib, Guru ka Tal rises beside a seventeenth-century Mughal rainwater tank near Sikandra on the outskirts of Agra, its white domes standing over ground the Sikh sangat holds sacred to the memory of Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji, the ninth Guru.
SikhismGuru Nanak Jhira Sahib
Bidar · India · gurdwara
Guru Nanak Jhira Sahib rises in a valley ringed by laterite hills in Bidar, Karnataka, around a spring that Sikh tradition holds Guru Nanak Dev Ji himself brought forth from the rock, and which has flowed without pause for more than five centuries.
SikhismGuru Ram Rai Darbar Sahib
Dehradun · India · gurdwara
Guru Ram Rai Darbar Sahib stands in the heart of Dehradun as a marble memorial to Baba Ram Rai Ji, eldest son of Guru Har Rai Ji, the seventh Guru, whose encampment here in the Doon valley gave the city its name.
SikhismHarmandir Sahib
· India · gurdwara
Harmandir Sahib, the Golden Temple, stands at the spiritual heart of Sikhism in Amritsar, Punjab, India, drawing millions of pilgrims and seekers to its shimmering sanctum each year.
SikhismLakhpat Gurdwara Sahib
Lakhpat · India · gurdwara
Lakhpat Gurdwara Sahib, also known as Gurdwara Pehli Patshahi, is a Sikh gurdwara within the walled town of Lakhpat in Kutch, Gujarat, raised on the spot where Guru Nanak Dev Ji is held to have stayed during his travels.
SikhismNada Sahib
Panchkula · India · gurdwara
Beside the Ghaggar-Hakra river in the Sivalik hills of Panchkula, Gurdwara Nada Sahib marks the ground where Guru Gobind Singh Ji rested while travelling from Paonta Sahib to Anandpur Sahib after the Battle of Bhangani.
SikhismSri Akal Takht Sahib
Amritsar · India · gurdwara
The supreme temporal seat of the Sikhs, founded in 1606 by Guru Hargobind Sahib facing Sri Harmandir Sahib, where the Jathedar issues hukamnamas and the Guru Granth Sahib Ji rests each night.
SikhismTakht Sachkhand Sri Hazur Sahib
Nanded · India · gurdwara
One of the five Takhts of Sikhi, raised on the bank of the Godavari at Nanded, where Guru Gobind Singh Ji, the tenth Guru, passed into Joti Jot in 1708 and conferred eternal Guruship upon the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji.