Tirtha Atlas

The sacred geography of the Indic world — every site mapped, dated, storied, and cited.

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Patron

Maharaja Ranjit Singh

3 sites in the atlas name Maharaja Ranjit Singh as patron, across 3 states.

BiharPunjabUttar PradeshIndia
Sites here
3
records naming this patron
Geographic span
Bihar · Punjab · Uttar Pradesh
from the site records
Structures span
16th–20th c.
the buildings' dates, not the patron's

These centuries are the minimum and maximum of the built ranges of the sites below — several of which have older cores this patron did not raise. The atlas states no dates for the patron: it carries no sourced field for them.

Sites

Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple)
Amritsar, Punjab · India
1581–1604; rebuilt 1764; gilded 1830s
Kashi Vishwanath Temple
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh · India
current temple 1780; corridor 2021
Takht Sri Harmandir Sahib, Patna
Patna City, Bihar · India
rebuilt 19th c. & 1950s

As the records write it

The patron field is free text, so the same person is written several ways. These are the exact forms behind this page — nothing here is a normalisation you cannot check.

Sources

7 citations across 3 site records. The attribution above is only as good as these.

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derived from the patron field of 3 records · no patron biography is stored or inferred · sources retrieved 2026-08-26