Gurdwara Rori Sahib: 200-year-old Sikh church shines to date
The categorical building consists of 3 domes, with cutwork in bricks, while inside a building, there is a pool for ablutions on a right side and a gymnasium in on a left. PHOTOS: FILE
LAHORE: As one goes serve on a Sialkot-Eminabad Road 3 domes start appearing larger, creation one stop to see a loftiness Gurdwara Rori Sahib retains.
Sandeep Singh, who has been looking over a executive affairs of a gurdwara for a final 15 years, told The Express Tribune, a building is one of a many ruins of a Sikh ruler, Maharaja Ranjeet Singh’s, reign.
Althought urbanisation has left a gurdwara divided from a categorical city, in a forlorn location, story compared with it creates a place poignant for a supporters of Sikhism.
According to Sandeep, a place has got a inflection from a fable of Guru Nanak Dev. He is pronounced to have once sat on a raise of pebbles during a place to discuss for a initial time. The name of a place, Sandeep added, comes from a story of Mughal rule. The place came to be famous as Rori, definition pebbles in Punjabi, after Eminabad was destructed by a Mughal czar Babur’s force in 1521.
Later, in 1578, Babur’s army took Guru Nanak Dev into prison. Guru Nanak Dev is famous as a initial guru of Sikhs.
Bricks of time
Sandeep pronounced a gurdwara building is approximately 200 years old, though a accurate year in that it was built was unknown.
The gurdwara is located during about dual kilometres north-west from Eminabad city and 17km divided from Gujranwala city.
Its categorical building consists of 3 domes, with cutwork in bricks.
Inside a building, there is a pool for ablutions on a right side, while a gymnasium in on a left.
The second structure consists of white architecture underneath that is a room. The doorway of a room opens to a veranda.
“The categorical and adjacent building was consecrated by Ranjeet Singh, while a vast estate, travelling 9 squares of rural land was also allocated as a gurdwara premises during his era,” Sandeep said. “Shrines were assembled during a spots where Guru Nanak went to medidate – many distinguished of them are Nankana Sahib, Sri Darbar Sahib or Golden Temple in Amritsar, Gurdwara Panja Sahib in Hasan Abdal and Rohri Sahib.”
Overlooked
Sandeep pronounced a building remained mostly abandoned after 1947, however, a supervision took some poignant regressive stairs in 1999 and given afterwards all a executive issues are tackled by Auqaf and Religious Affairs Department.
He combined that overdue to abounding Sikh enlightenment that prevailed in a segment before to 1947, historically critical shrines such as Gurdwara Chakki Sahib and Gurdwara Khuhi Bhai Lalo are also located in Eminabad.
According to Sandeep, a gurdwara still hosts annual Vesakhi mela.
He combined a gurdwara receives many visitors in Apr and November, when a birth of Vesakhi and Baba Guru Nanak are distinguished respectively.
“On other days, Sikh visitors are acquire to stay here during any time,” Sandeep said.
He confirmed a rise deteriorate sees approximately 0.2 million visitors each year.
Published in The Express Tribune, Nov 3rd, 2016.
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