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The Untaught Historian

Standing in the crush of people waiting to enter Harmandir Sahib (also called the Golden Temple), I was starting to panic just a little. I do not like crowds and this felt like the perfect recipe for a stampede – like the kind you read about in the newspaper about pilgrims at different Hindu temples.

The Golden Temple claims to have nearly 150,000 visitors daily. It is easy to believe. There were nearly 500 of us, standing in the dark, on this cold December morning. And there was a steady stream of tourists and pilgrims filing in behind us. The previous night, I had pored through news articles about the spike in Covid cases around China . The news cheerfully predicted spikes in India too. “Just perfect,” I thought, as the tall Sardar man beside me sneezed so hard that my dupatta flapped against my cheek.

But as time passed, I started to notice that this was different from other crushes I had been in. Occasionally, a toddler or baby would begin to fuss, and suddenly the crowds would part and the young parents would be ushered forw

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Origin and History of the Golden Temple

The Golden temple, or the abode of gods for Sikhs, is formally called Harmandir Sahib. The Mughals and Afghans demolished it during their invasion of India and Pakistan, and Sikh monarchs rebuilt this temple under their reign. The present-day structure was built by Maharaja Ranjit Singh using copper and marble, but the top of the temple is designed with golden petals. He rebuilt the Golden temple of Amritsar in 1809 and painted the temple with gold by the year 1830. Adi Granth is the main pavilion in the Golden temple, built in 1609.

The story behind the present Golden temple:

The idea behind the construction of the golden temple was put into action by the third Sikh guru, Guru Amar Das. He took the most suitable land and built divine premises for God. These premises were called Guru da Chakk. He then asked his disciple, Guru Ramdas, to build the temple somewhere else. Guru Ramdas found the most suitable place for building the temple, and he also succeeded his teacher as the next Guru in 1574. Guru Ramdas built the temple and the pool,

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Golden Temple

Sikh religious site in Punjab, India

For other uses, see Golden Temple (disambiguation).

The Golden Temple (also known as the Harmandir Sāhiblit. 'House of God', Punjabi: harimandara sāhibapronounced[ɦəɾᵊmən̪d̪əɾᵊsaːɦ(ɪ)bᵊ], or the Darbār Sāhib, lit. ''exalted court'', [d̪əɾᵊbaːɾᵊsaːɦ(ɪ)bᵊ]) is a gurdwara located in Amritsar, Punjab, India.^[2] It is the pre-eminent spiritual site of Sikhism. It is one of the holiest sites in Sikhism, alongside the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur in Kartarpur, and Gurdwara Janam Asthan in Nankana Sahib.^[2]^[4]

The sarovar (holy pool) on the site of the gurdwara was completed by the fourth Sikh Guru, Guru Ram Das, in 1577. In 1604, Guru Arjan, the fifth Sikh Guru, placed a copy of the Adi Granth in the Golden Temple and was a prominent figure in its development.^[2]^[7] The gurdwara was repeatedly rebuilt by the Sikhs after it became a target of persecution and was destroyed several times by the Mughal and invading Afghan armies.^[2]