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It is easy to read this as one more building inside the Golden Temple complex.
The Golden Temple sits lower than the ground around it, and you walk down steps to reach the water.
Anandpur Sahib — the 'Holy City of Bliss' — matters as much as anywhere in the Sikh faith outside Amritsar.
Takht Sri Damdama Sahib at Talwandi Sabo is one of the five Takhts of Sikhism, the place where Guru Gobind Singh prepared the definitive recension of the Guru…
In Jalandhar the temple is built around its own water tank, the devi talab it is named for, which sits in the middle of the complex with a model of the…
Amritsar's other temple on a tank, and the likeness to the Golden Temple is close enough to catch people out: a similar silhouette, a different faith.
Gurdwara Fatehgarh Sahib rises in white marble over the site of Sikhism's most heart-rending sacrifice — where in 1704 the two youngest sons of Guru Gobind…
Seven acres, close enough to the Golden Temple to walk, where a crowd gathered on Baisakhi Day, 13 April 1919, and was fired on.
The last ruler of Kapurthala gave his capital a mosque modelled on the Grand Mosque of Marrakesh, finished in 1930, with Indo-Islamic detail worked into a…
A man-made cave complex on the Shahpur Kandi Dam road out of Pathankot, with a Shiva shrine at its heart and representations of Ganesha, Brahma, Vishnu…
The Maharaja of Patiala brought two six-foot statues, Maa Kali and the Paawan Jyot, from Bengal in 1936 and built this temple to house them, opposite the…
What stands in Jalandhar Cantonment today is new. The church built here in 1847 and dedicated to St Patrick was pulled down in 1987, and the present…
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