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Takht Sri Keshgarh Sahib

ਤਖ਼ਤ ਸ੍ਰੀ ਕੇਸਗੜ੍ਹ ਸਾਹਿਬ

Anandpur Sahib, Punjab · 31.2350°, 76.4989°

Guru Granth Sahib (Takht of the Khalsa)Sikh GurusSikh architecturePanj Takht

Sacred since

1699 CE

first attestation / structure

Standing structure

present building 1930s; Khalsa inaugurated here 1699

Sikh Gurus

History & significance

One of the five Takhts, the supreme seats of Sikh temporal authority, standing where Guru Gobind Singh inaugurated the Khalsa in 1699. The shrine occupies the site of Anandgarh Qila, one of the forts the Guru raised at Anandpur, and the present building dates from a reconstruction in the mid-1930s.

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