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1819–20 A.D. Gurdwara Janam Asthan (Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Urdu: گردوارہ جنم استھان; Punjabi (Gurmukhi): ਗੁਰਦੁਆਰਾ ਜਨਮ ਅਸਥਾਨ), also referred to as Gurdwara Nankana Sahib, is a highly revered gurdwara that is situated at the site where the founder of Sikhism, Guru Nanak, was born. [2][3][4][5] The ...
Gurū Nānak (15 April 1469 – 22 September 1539; Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਨਾਨਕ; pronunciation: [gʊɾuː naːnəkᵊ], pronunciation ⓘ), also known as Bābā Nānak ('Father Nānak'), [12] was the founder of Sikhism and is the first of the ten Sikh Gurus. His birth is celebrated as Guru Nanak Gurpurab on Katak Pooranmashi ('full-moon ...
Gurdwara Panja Sahib (Punjabi: ਗੁਰਦੁਆਰਾ ਪੰਜਾ ਸਾਹਿਬ (Gurmukhi), گردوارا پنجا صاحب (Shahmukhi); Urdu: گردوارہ پنجہ صاحب) is a famous gurdwara located in Hasan Abdal, Pakistan. The shrine is considered to be particularly important as the handprint of the founder of Sikhism, Guru Nanak ...
Nankana Sahib (Urdu: ننکانہ صاحب, romanized: Nankāna Ṣāhib; Punjabi: ننکاݨا صاحب , romanized: Nankāṇā Ṣāhib) is a city and capital of Nankana Sahib District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is named after the first Guru of the Sikhs, Guru Nanak, who was born in the city and first began preaching here ...
Gurus of the Sikhs. Fresco from Dera Nirmala, Tanda-Hoshiarpur. The Sikh gurus (Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖ ਗੁਰੂ; Hindi: सिख गुरु) are the spiritual masters of Sikhism, who established the religion over the course of about two and a half centuries, beginning in 1469. [ 2 ] The year 1469 marks the birth of Guru Nanak, the founder ...
Pir Budhan Shah[note 1] (died 1643; [1] پیر بدھن علی شاہ), also called Baba Budhan Ali Shah, Peer Baba, and Sayyed Shamsuddin, [2][3][4] was a venerated Sufi pir [5] who held a religious discourse with Guru Nanak in Rawalpindi and later accepted Gurmat thought during the times of Guru Hargobind. [6][7] He was a Sufi Muslim by birth ...
Kartarpur (Punjabi: کرتار پور (Shahmukhi), ਕਰਤਾਰਪੁਰ (Gurmukhi); Urdu: کرتارپور) is a town located, just 102 km from Lahore city in the Shakargarh Tehsil, Narowal District in Punjab, Pakistan. Located on the right bank of the Ravi River, it is said to have been founded by the first guru of Sikhism, Guru Nanak ...
Baba Farid, as he is commonly known, has his poetry included in the Guru Granth Sahib, the most sacred scripture of Sikhism, which includes 123 (or 134) hymns composed by Farid. [11] Guru Arjan Dev Ji , the 5th guru of Sikhism, included these hymns himself in the Adi Granth , the predecessor of the Guru Granth Sahib . [ 1 ]