Gurdwara Dukh Nivaran Sahib

Dukh Nivaran Sahib
Dukh Nivaran Sahib
	Dukh Nivaran Sahib
General information
Architectural style	Sikh architecture
Town or city	Patiala
Country	India

Gurdwara Dukh Nivaran Sahib is situated in what used to be the village of Lehal, now part of Patiala city.

History

According to local tradition, supported by an old handwritten document preserved in the

ninth guru of Sikhs Guru Tegh Bahadur

during his sojourn at Saifabad (now Bahadurgarh), and made the request that he might be pleased to visit and bless his village so that its inhabitants could be rid of a serious and mysterious sickness which had been their bane for a long time.

The Guru visited Lehal on Magh sudi 5, 1728 Bikram/24 January 1672 and stayed under a banyan tree by the side of a pond.[1] The sickness in the village subsided. The site where Guru Tegh Bahadur had sat came to be known as Dukh Nivaran, literally meaning eradicator of suffering. Devotees have faith in the healing qualities of water in the sarovar attached to the shrine.

Raja Amar Singh of Patiala (1748–82) had a garden laid out on the site as a memorial which he entrusted to

Sirhind-Patiala-Jakhal

railway line, it appeared that the banyan tree under which had sat Guru Tegh Bahadur would have to be removed. But men charged with felling it refused to touch it.

Ultimately,

Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee

.

Gurdwara Dukh Nivaran Sahib Complex

The building complex sprawls over several acres. The two storey gateway has a collapsible iron gate and black and white marble floor. On the left of the pathway leading to the principal building is a small marble shrine marking the site where Guru Teg Bahadur had sat under the

banyan tree

. The central two storey building, with a domed pavilion on top, is on a raised base having an octagonal domed chamber at each corner. The pinnacled lotus dome on top has a round sun-window on each side with a curved coping, projected horizontally at the ends. There are decorative domed pavilions at the corners and lotus blossoms in leaf in the middle on top of the walls.

The interior is paved with marble slabs in white and grey against black and white of the outer platform. The walls and pillars are also panelled with white marble slabs. The ceiling is decorated with stucco work in floral design. The

Basant Panchmi

which marks the day of Guru Tegh Bahadur's visit.

References

^ http://www.sgpc.net/historical-gurdwaras/tegh.asp#3
^ "Patiala Convention & Visitors Site - Hotels, Attractions, Dining, Car Rentals, City Services". Archived from the original on 2 November 2009. Retrieved 16 January 2010.

External links

30°20′50″N 76°23′46″E / 30.3471°N 76.3961°E / 30.3471; 76.3961

[1] ttp://www.sgpc.net/historical-gurdwaras/tegh.asp#3

[2] "Patiala Convention & Visitors Site - Hotels, Attractions, Dining, Car Rentals, City Services". Archived from the original on 2 November 2009. Retrieved 16 January 2010.