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5 places to explore — hand-picked across Punjab.
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The Golden Temple sits lower than the ground around it, and you walk down steps to reach the water. That is deliberate: nearly every other temple in India makes you climb up to it. It has four doo…
Anandpur Sahib, translating to the 'Holy City of Bliss', matters as much as anywhere in the Sikh faith outside Amritsar. It sits at the foothills of the scenic Shivalik mountain range along the Sut…
Takht Sri Damdama Sahib at Talwandi Sabo is one of the five Takhts of Sikhism, the place where Guru Gobind Singh prepared the definitive recension of the Guru Granth Sahib. Known as the 'Guru's Kas…
Devi Talab Mandir (Tripuramalini) in Jalandhar, Punjab is one of the Shakti Peethas, the sacred shrines of the Divine Mother in the Shakta tradition of Hinduism. According to tradition, this is whe…
Gurdwara Fatehgarh Sahib rises in white marble over the site of Sikhism's most heart-rending sacrifice — where in 1704 the two youngest sons of Guru Gobind Singh, aged just seven and nine, were bri…