Gurdwara Fatehgarh Sahib

Gurdwara Fatehgarh Sahib
Gurdwara Fatehgarh Sahib
	Gurdwara Fatehgarh Sahib
Religion
Affiliation	Sikhism
Location
Location	Fatehgarh Sahib
State	Punjab
Country	India
	Shown within Punjab Gurdwara Fatehgarh Sahib (India) Gurdwara Fatehgarh Sahib (Asia)
Geographic coordinates	30°37′34″N 76°23′48″E / 30.6260585°N 76.3965685°E
Architecture
Type	Gurdwara
Style	Sikh architecture

Gurdwara Fatehgarh Sahib is a

Ferozshah Tughlaq to the ground.^[2]

History

Original Gurdwara Sri Fatehgarh Sahib

Historical photograph of Fatehgarh Sahib in the early 1900's.

To commemorate

Sirhind, a magnificent gurdwara

was constructed.

It is the location where two youngest sons of

Guru Gobind Singh Ji – 7 year old Fateh Singh and 9 year old Zorawar Singh – were betrayed by their cook and servant Gangu to the Mughal army, seized, asked to convert to Islam and when they refused they were buried alive under the orders of Wazir Khan.^[3]^[4] Their martyrdom on 9 December 1705 has been remembered by the Sikhs by naming the site as Fatehgarh after the youngest boy killed, and by building a large Gurdwara in 1843.^[3] The town is also the location where the Sikhs took revenge by capturing it from Wazir Khan in 1710 and killing him.^[3]^[5] However, the Sikh militia was defeated again few years later and the town remained in the control of Muslim rulers, including later an appointee of Ahmed Shah Durrani till 1764, when Khalsa recaptured it by defeating and killing the appointee Zain Khan.^[3]^[5]

Other major Sikh Gurdwaras in the complex:

Bhora Sahib: the underground location within Fatehgarh Sahib Gurdwara where the two sons were buried alive. This monument was built by Karam Singh of Patiala in early 19th-century.

Gurdwara Jyoti Sarup lies about 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) southeast from Fatehgarh Sahib on the Sirhind-Chandigarh road. At this place, Mata Gujri – the mother of Guru Gobind Singh, and her two youngest grandchildren, Fateh Singh and Zorawar Singh were cremated.^[3]^[5]^[4]

Gurdwara Bimangarh is close to the Fatehgarh Sahib Gurdwara. It is a location where the dead bodies of the two children and their grandmother was kept for the night before the cremation.[3]
Banda Bahadur platform is believed in the Sikh tradition as the place where 6,000 Sikhs died fighting the Muslim army in the Battle of Chapparchiri.^[5]

Main Gurudwara Complex

A number of gurdwaras are also located in the main complex of Gurudwara Fatehgarh Sahib.

Gurudwara Bhora Sahib

The historical wall where the younger sons of Guru Gobind Singh were bricked-up alive has been preserved in this gurdwara. The sanctuary containing the historic wall known as Gurudwara Bhora Sahib.

Gurudwara Burj Mata Gujri

At this site

tenth guru of sikhs Guru Gobind Singh and his mother were kept in confinement by Wazir Khan. The fort was known as Thanda Burj, and was considered a cool place during the summer. However, it was a punishment for Guru's sons and his mother to be kept here in extreme winter. It was at this place that Mata Gujri

collapsed on hearing the news of the martyrdom of her grandsons. Later on, Gurdwara Mata Gujri was constructed here.

Gurudwara Shahid Ganj

The Gurudwara Shahid Ganj was built to commemorate the memory of the brave Sikhs who were killed while fighting with Mughal forces under the banner of Banda Singh Bahadur. They were cremated here.

Todar Mal Jain Hall

A very big hall in memory of Seth Todar Mal who purchased land by paying gold coins for the cremation of the said martyrs lies behind the main gurdwara.