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Sikh architecture is a style of architecture that was developed under the Sikh Confederacy and Sikh Empire during the 18th and 19th centuries in the Punjab region. Due to its progressive style, it is constantly evolving into many newly developing branches with new contemporary styles.
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Painting of Guru Har Krishan blessing Raja Jai Singh of Jaipur, by D.A. Ahuja of Rangoon. Gurdwara Bangla Sahib was originally a bungalow belonging to Raja Jai Singh, an Hindu Rajput ruler in the seventeenth century, and was known as Jaisinghpura Palace, in Jaisingh Pura, an historic neighbourhood demolished to make way for the Connaught Place, shopping district. [4]
[5] [6] There existed frescoes depicting the ten Sikh gurus on the underside of the gurdwara's dome. [5] [6] The frescoes depicted the Sikh gurus engaged in warfare and also children of the gurus. [3] However, the faces of the figuratives in the frescoes have been deliberately chipped-off by an iconoclastic vandal. [3]
The height of the dome, half the total height, is consistent with early Timurid architecture, but against the trend of Mughal architecture up to that point. [35] The fusion of Persian and Indian architecture can be seen in the dome's shape: the bulbous shape derives from Persian Timurid domes, and the finial with lotus leaf base is derived from ...
This historic site is of great importance to Sikhism, as it is said to be the place where the First Guru of Sikhs, Guru Nanak, spent 14 years of his life.The place derives its name from a Ber tree (Ziziphus jujuba) said to have been planted by Guru Nanak himself, under which he first uttered the Mul Mantar or the "Sacred Word or Revelation" of Sikhism.
Under the management of the New Zealand Sikh Society Auckland, formed on 6 June 1982, now the Supreme Sikh Society of New Zealand, the Ōtāhuhu Gurdwara and Sikh community flourished. With the guidance of an advisory committee formed in 2001, the Society purchased 3.5 hectares of land on Takanini School Road and laid the foundation stone for a ...
A view of the Gurudwara's baoli, or stepwell.. Gurdwara Chowa Sahib (Urdu: گردوارہ چوآ صاحب; literally: "Gurudwara of the exalted spring") is a renovated gurdwara located at the northern edge of the Rohtas Fort, near Jhelum, Pakistan.