Gurudwara Sis Ganj Sahib

This is a Sikh Temple and we do not think that we have ever been in such a temple before. We had to remove shoes, wear something on our heads, wash our hands, walk through water to wash our feet and sit down on the floor and listen to I guess what you could call either prayers or meditation.

We walked around the temple through the kitchen and a dining hall, where the temple feeds roughly 20,000 people for lunch and dinner every day. Anyone can eat there rich, poor and even tourists if they wish. It was quite interesting listening to our guide explain about the Sikh religion.

Gurdwara Sis Ganj Sahib is one of the nine historical Gurdwaras in Delhi. It was first constructed in 1783 by Baghel Singh Dhaliwal to commemorate the martyrdom site of the ninth Sikh Guru, Guru Tegh Bahadur. It marks the site where the ninth Sikh Guru was beheaded on the orders of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb on 11 November 1675 for refusing to convert to Islam.Read more