Historic gurdwara
Gurdwara Dera Sahib
The main Sikh gurdwara of Lahore, close to the Fort, marking the martyrdom of Sri Guru Arjun Dev Ji in 1606.
History
- 1606
The martyrdom
Sri Guru Arjun Dev Ji endured torture under the orders of the Emperor Jahangir and was martyred on 30 May 1606, in the Ravi, which then flowed close to the Fort.[EoS]
- After 1947
Later history
It is one of the few gurdwaras in Pakistan that kept Sikh officiants after the Partition of 1947. The samadh of Maharaja Ranjit Singh stands nearby.[EoS]
Images
An autochrome by Stéphane Passet from 1914, labelled a Sikh temple in Lahore. Commons identifies it as Gurdwara Dera Sahib and rejects a rival identification as Gurdwara Bhai Banno at Mangat.
Stéphane Passet, c. 1914. Albert-Kahn collections (as credited on Commons). Public domain. Source
Gurdwara Dera Sahib, Lahore, marked as the samadh of Sri Guru Arjun Dev Ji. From Syad Muhammad Latif's book on Lahore, 1892.
Syad Muhammad Latif, 1892. Public domain. Source
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