Bhai Bhag Singh Bara Dari is not just a Gurdwara. Right now, it is just ruins but it was once a thriving Sikh community complex in Rawalpindi. Bhag Singh Gurdwara has been named after the great Sikh religious figure of Rawalpindi’s affluent Sikh community. Who was Bhai Bhag Singh? Bhag Singh Ji was a Sikh…
Main Jamia Masjid of Rawalpindi city, Pakistan is 100 years old and located right at the junction of Bagh Sardaran and Jamia Masjid road crossection. The meaning of Jamia Masjid is Grand Central Mosque of the congregation. This time we started from Bagh Sardaran to see Jamia masjid and got there on a…
Coming from a long line of influential Sikh notables, Soojan Singh (death 1901) was the third-generation businessman, whose primary job was supplying rations to troops. His haveli is magnificent. His elders had supplied Sikh troops in all their campaigns in Kashmir and North-West and the British in the Afghan war. They mostly dealt in wood,…
Kalyan Das Hindu temple is sited in the center of Qandeel Public School of blind children at Kohati Bazar, Murree Road. It is quite well preserved considering the patrons had left 70 years ago Where is Kalyan Das Hindu Temple Rawalpindi It is very close to banni chowk on the Murree Road Also, see Hindu…
I didn’t know there were so many Hindu Temples Mandirs in Rawalpindi Pakistan — mostly intact. I’d been frequently spotting a few of these hindu temples and mandir of Rawalpindi Pakistan over the skyline, whenever I visited the old city. I would sometimes also catch a glimpse of the mansions’ or ‘havelis’ abandoned by Hindus…