Gurudwaras in West Punjab

The Village Bucheki on Lahore-Jaranwala road is very well known. It is 15 kilometer southwest of Nankana Sahib Railway station. The Gurdwara of Sat Gur Arjun Dev Ji is situated in this Village. Guru Arjun Dev Ji came to this place from Nankana Sahib. The Gurdwara with a dome is beautifully built. There is a […]

Buccheki is a well known town on Lahore-Jaranwala road. The old city is about one km from the main road. The Dharamsala of Bhai Harnam Singh is in the old town and in a locality which goes by the name of Mohalla Dharamsala. It was a very beautiful building but now many refugees have established […]

This historical place is situated opposite Shahid Ganj Bhai Taru Singh. According to some historians, about two and a half lakh Singhs-Sikh women folk, young and old Singhs and Children were martyrised here. As the women suffered most to immortalism on account of thier heroic deeds, it was named Gurdwara Shahid Ganj Singhnian. In march […]

This sacred Shrine, is located in the famous Chambeli Bazaar of Jhang-Magghiana and is a very well known Gurdwara of the area. Initially it was a small Gurdwara but in 1953-54 the Govt of Pakistan built its new building. This building stands in the same condition today as it was before. It is a very […]

Gurdwara Khuhi Bhai Lalo Ji: Bhai Lab was a carpenter living at Eminabad. Guru Nanak Dev stayed with him on several occasions. Bhai Lalo’s house became a dharmsal, meeting place for local followers of the Guru, and was later Developed into Gurdwara which was named after a khuhi(narrow well) which existed even when the old […]

There is a Village, Narali, in P.S Jatri of Tehsil Gujar Khan of Rawalpindi district which is six miles southwest of Daultala railway station. A metalled road leads to this Village from Gujar Khan. It can also be approached from Mandra via Daultala. Gurdwara Sat Guru HarGobind Sahib is located in this Village. The father […]

This place, related to the lifetime of Guru Ram Das Ji, is situated in Gurdwara Diwan Khana, Chuni Mandi. The ancestors of Guru Ram Das trensacted their trade at this place. Guru Arjan Dev stayed here when he came to attend the marriage of his cousin, Bhai Sahari Mal’s son. This dharamashala was attached to […]

The Gurdwara Baoli Sahib is located at a distance of two hundred meters from Gurdwara Bair Sahib. It was built over the site where once the house of Maula Karar stood. He was afraid to meet Sat Gur and at the instance of his wife stayed inside and died of snake-bite. And it was here that […]

The area around the shrine of Shah Chan Chiragh is probably the oldest locality of Rawalpindi city. The shrine itself is almost 400 years old. A gurdwara is located about fifty meters north of the shrine at 33°37’8.00″N, 73° 3’34.45″E. The current building of the gurdwara seems to be built in the third or fourth […]

The Gurdwara is attached with the Samadh of Sardar Phoola Singh Akali. The Samadh is a small Chaukhandi (room with door in each of the 4 walls) whereas the Gurdwara is built in the form of a fort. The vacant land beside it is a part of the Gurdwara. Nahing Singh used to practice war […]

Gurudwara Chakki Sahib: Janamsakhis also mention Guru Nanak Dev’s being made a prisoner at the hands of Babar’s men. He was made to grind corn with a hand-driven millstone (chakki in Punjabi), but his captors were surprised to see that the millstone revolved by itself while the prisoner only poured grist into it. When the […]

The historic town of Laliani is situated on the Lahore-Ferozpur road. A very famous Village by the name of Daftu is located at a distance of four Kilometer from Lalyani. The beautiful building of the Gurdwara inside the Village in visible from a distance. It is said that this was the Gurdwara where Baba Bullhe […]