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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.