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Sikhism in Bangladesh (Bengali: বাংলাদেশী শিখ) has an extensive heritage and history, although Sikhs had always been a minority community in Bengal. Their founder, Guru Nanak visited a number of places in Bengal in the early sixteenth century where he introduced Sikhism to locals and founded numerous establishments.
Inside image of Gurudwara Nanak Shahi(shri Darbar Saheb),Dhaka. After Harban Singh's 1988–89 renovations, the exterior façade of the Gurdwara underwent large structural changes but attention was paid to preserve the impressive original interior, albeit with some changes made to its layout.
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English: A map of the hemisphere centred on 90.5, 23.5, using an orthographic projection, created using gringer's Perl script with Natural Earth Data (1:50000 resolution, simplified to 0.25px). Bangladesh is highlighted in red.
The following outline is provides an overview of Sikhism, or Sikhi (its endonym).. Sikhism has been described as being either a panentheistic or monotheistic religion—emphasizing universal selflessness and brotherhood—founded in the 15th century upon the teachings of Guru Nanak and the ten succeeding Gurus.
Coastline, roads, railroads, and place names are based on a 1996 CIA map (File:Bangladesh_LOC_1996_map.jpg). Topography data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. Relief shading is an embedded PNG raster, derived from the SRTM data using Perl. Bathymetry from NGDC ETOPO2. The data was processed in Perl and projected using Geo::Proj4.
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