Gurudwara Bangla Sahib
The eighth Sikh Guru spent his final weeks here distributing every offering to Delhi's sick poor — then died in this bungalow in 1664.
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A seventeenth-century Rajput nobleman's bungalow converted to a gurdwara after Guru Har Krishan used it as a relief base for the city's downtrodden. In 1984, 150 Sikhs sheltered inside during anti-Sikh riots. The sacred pool — the Sarovar — draws pilgrims who carry its water home as amrit believed to have healing properties.
What to look for
- The golden dome and tall flagpole visible from Baba Kharak Singh Marg before you reach the entrance
- The Sarovar: a 225-by-235-foot pool with an 18-foot-wide parkarma walkway — watch pilgrims filling bottles at the water's edge
- The tank built by Raja Jai Singh over the original well, whose waters Sikhs still take home as amrit
On Baba Kharak Singh Marg near Connaught Place, New Delhi.
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More to see in Delhi
- Red FortThe ramparts where Jawaharlal Nehru raised India's flag on 15 August 1947 still host that ceremony every Independence Day.
- Qutb MinarSuccessive dynasties handed this tower off across 170 years — Aibak started it in 1199, Firuz Shah Tughlaq capped it with a cupola in 1368.
- Humayun's TombThe red-sandstone ancestor of the Taj Mahal — commissioned by an empress, designed by Persian architects, and finished a century before Agra.
- Jama MasjidShah Jahan built his imperial mosque at the highest point of Shahjahanabad — the Mughal capital — and it was regarded as a symbolic gesture of Mughal power across India.
- Lotus TempleTwenty-seven marble petals, grouped in threes, fold into a single hall where any person of any faith walks in without condition.
- India GateAround 13,300 names carved in stone — soldiers lost across Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, and the Afghan frontier.