Sacred Places
33 places found
SikhismGurdwara Panja Sahib
Hasan Abdal · Pakistan · gurdwara
Gurdwara Panja Sahib at Hasan Abdal enshrines a boulder that Sikh tradition holds bears the handprint of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, beside a sacred spring said to have risen at his word.
SikhismGurdwara Paonta Sahib
Paonta Sahib · India · gurdwara
Gurdwara Paonta Sahib rises on the bank of the River Yamuna in Sirmaur district, Himachal Pradesh, where Guru Gobind Singh Ji made his home for several years and composed major portions of the Dasam Granth.
SikhismGurdwara Rakab Ganj Sahib
New Delhi · India · gurdwara
Gurdwara Rakab Ganj Sahib stands near Parliament House in New Delhi, on the ground where Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji's body was cremated in November 1675 after his martyrdom at Chandni Chowk.
SikhismGurdwara Sis Ganj Sahib
New Delhi · India · gurdwara
Gurdwara Sis Ganj Sahib marks the Chandni Chowk site where Guru Tegh Bahadur, the ninth Sikh Guru, was publicly beheaded in 1675 on the order of Aurangzeb, after refusing to convert to Islam and standing in defence of the Kashmiri Pandits' freedom to keep their own faith.
SikhismGurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha
Southall · United Kingdom · gurdwara
Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha stands at the junction of Guru Nanak Road and Park Avenue in Southall, west London, the largest gurdwara in the United Kingdom and a spiritual home for one of the largest Sikh communities outside Punjab. Its gold dome and marble chattris rise over a sangat that gathers here for daily diwan, kirtan, and langar.
SikhismGurdwara Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib
Dhubri · India · gurdwara
Gurdwara Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib rises on the bank of the Brahmaputra in Dhubri, Assam, on ground the sangat holds sacred to two Sikh Gurus a century and a half apart. Known locally as Dumdume Gurdwara, its white marble domes are among the farthest-flung Sikh landmarks in northeastern India.
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.
SikhismGur Sikh Temple
Abbotsford · Canada · gurdwara
The Gur Sikh Temple in Abbotsford, British Columbia, opened in 1911, is the oldest surviving gurdwara in North America and the only one outside India and Pakistan designated a National Historic Site. Its ground floor now holds the Sikh Heritage Museum, while its upper prayer hall remains an active place of worship before the Guru Granth Sahib Ji.
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.