Sikh temple and lunch

We visited Sheeshganj Gurudwara, a Sikh temple with a langar on a very much smaller scale than the one I visited at the Golden Temple in Amritsar. It is one of the nine historical Gurdwaras in Delhi. It was first constructed in 1783 as a small shrine by Baghel Singh to mark the site where the ninth Sikh Guru was beheaded on the orders of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb on 11 November 1675. It was expanded after the Indian Rebellion of 1857 when the British gave more land to the Sikhs a thank you for providing large numbers of ammunition and soldiers to help them defeat the Mughal soldiers. Its current building was made by Rai Bahadur Narain Singh, a contractor who built most of roads in Lutyens New Delhi construction under British Rule.

We sat for a while in the temple listening to the music and watching the people coming and going (no photography allowed) before going to the langar, where we helped with veg prep and making chapattis.

After our visit to the Sikh temple, the rest of the group went for lunch at a local shopping mall. Fiona and I went to a local place for a snack lunch of sev puri and pani puri.Read more