Gurdwara Designs

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Gurdwara baba atal rai in amritsar

The smaller white building with three domes is the tomb of nawab kapoor singh 

 

 

 

[Guest jigsaw_puzzled_singh]

Re; the 'Seven Kings Gurdwara' thread on the main page:

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Sister not to offend but that gurdwara on francis road is in leyton not leytonstone as thats a different area as i have been there a few times.

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Its easy to mix up leyton with Leytonstone.

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Yes it is as they both sound the same

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maybe but I've always known it as leytonstone  since a kid ..they are basically on top of each other and the boundary's not clear cut .

At the very real risk of severely annoying MisterSingh, who absolutely detests my socio-history lectures  I'm gonna take the risk and weigh in on this one :

Are you all telling us you've never noticed that great big road running through the middle ?  the A12.  Well, that's the dividing line between Leyon and Leytonstone. For those older (like jkvlondon) who were born before the road was built or before the Romans invaded Britain, the tube track is also a significant marker for the border between the two.

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Artwork inside Harmandir sahib 

 

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Orignal Akal Takht Sahib

mid 19th century artwork Inside original Akal Takht 

Painting of Bhagat Kabir ji 

Guru Nanak Dev ji 

 

Guru Gobind Singh ji

 

Guru Hargobind sahib ji

Guru Hargobind and Bhai Bidhi Chand

The artwork in Akal Takht sahib was so beautiful 

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check out this old banyan tree in Amritsar which is growing through buildings, walls etc

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really cool video showing the historical Ramgaria bungas/towers from underground 

Sardar Jassa Singh Ramgarias throne 

This is the only remaining bunga left

 

[Guest jigsaw_puzzled_singh]

On ‎6‎/‎23‎/‎2018 at 11:34 PM, puzzled said:

Artwork inside Harmandir sahib 

 

There's only one word Puzzled: Wow !!!! Absolutely exquisite.

But....I just have to say something about one of the pictures (below): Raymond Weil wall clocks are expensive and can sometimes be a beautiful thing to look at in their own right BUT....there is a time (excuse the pun) and a place. I'd like to find the man at SGPC that thought it would be a good idea to place a clock there...give him a good shake...and a firm lecture about art and architecture

And it seems to be a running theme with the people that run the Golden Temple complex. At least one of them there has an obvious fetish for clocks. I mean if you look at the  picture above who in their right mind would look at the elegance and ambience of that surrounding and instead of being blown away by it's sheer beauty thinks to himself "ooh...you know what this place needs.....a clock on the wall"

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On 6/28/2018 at 9:20 AM, Guest jigsaw_puzzled_singh said:

There's only one word Puzzled: Wow !!!! Absolutely exquisite.

But....I just have to say something about one of the pictures (below): Raymond Weil wall clocks are expensive and can sometimes be a beautiful thing to look at in their own right BUT....there is a time (excuse the pun) and a place. I'd like to find the man at SGPC that thought it would be a good idea to place a clock there...give him a good shake...and a firm lecture about art and architecture

And it seems to be a running theme with the people that run the Golden Temple complex. At least one of them there has an obvious fetish for clocks. I mean if you look at the  picture above who in their right mind would look at the elegance and ambience of that surrounding and instead of being blown away by it's sheer beauty thinks to himself "ooh...you know what this place needs.....a clock on the wall"

I agree with that, They also are destroying priceless artwork by drilling holes into the wall. Harmandir sahib is one of the few places we have left which is dated back to the Sikh empire and the SGPC are still destroying it. Historical buildings are important as they are part of our heritage and history. The artwork in Harmandir sahib is a reflection of the time when we were kings and ruling the whole of Punjab. Historical buildings are a part of our story and journey as Sikhs.  These old buildings have a story to tell...

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Can you see the hand with the finger pointing down in the corner of these facades in Amritsar, they were a symbol of keeping your ego low and down

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A bit depressing but i found these pics of the Amritsar "crawling street" from 1919 when the locals had to crawl on their bellies under general o dyers orders 

 

Photo of a historical well on the crawling street today