GURU NANAK PALACE

 

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Topic covers: Information about the Palace and Guru Nanak Dev; ETPB

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A centuries-old ‘Guru Nanak palace’ was partially demolished by a group of vandals who sold its precious windows and doors in Pakistan’s Punjab province.

• The influentials have demolished the building with the connivance of the Auqaf department and sold its costly windows, doors, ventilators and wood.
• The Palace of Guru Nanak sees a number of Sikh visitors from across the globe, including India.

 

Guru Nanak Palace

• The structure at a village in Narowal city – about 100 kms from the provincial capital Lahore – had 16 rooms with each of them having at least three delicate doors and at least four ventilators.
• The walls of the four-storey building had pictures of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak as well as that of various Hindu rulers and princes.
• The construction of the palace comprised of old bricks, sand, clay and limestone.
• The rooms were constructed with large broad walls with cupboards in them that had wooden doors with flowers carved on them.
• All the rooms were airy and their walls had small lamp enclosures in them.
• Expensive diyar wood beams of various sizes were used in the roofs.

 

Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB)

ETPB, is a statutory board of the Government of Pakistan, is a key Government Department which administers evacuee properties, including educational, charitable or religious trusts left behind by Hindus & Sikhs who migrated to India after partition. It also maintain and upkeep places of worship belonging to Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan.

The ETPB is governed by the Board constituted by the Federal Government having representation of Sikhs, Hindus, Christians and Parsi.

 

Guru Nanak

• Guru Nanak (29 November 1469 – 22 September 1539) was the founder of Sikhism and the first of the ten Sikh Gurus.
• His birth is celebrated worldwide as Guru Nanak Gurpurab on Kartik Pooranmashi, the full-moon day in the month of Katak, October–November.
• Guru Nanak travelled far and wide teaching people the message of one God who dwells in every one of His creations and constitutes the eternal Truth.
• He set up a unique spiritual, social, and political platform based on equality, fraternal love, goodness, and virtue.
• Guru Nanak’s words are registered in the form of 974 poetic hymns in the holy text of Sikhism, the Guru Granth Sahib, with some of the major prayers being the Japji Sahib, the Asa di Var and the Sidh-Ghost.
• It is part of Sikh religious belief that the spirit of Guru Nanak’s sanctity, divinity and religious authority descended upon each of the nine subsequent Gurus when the Guruship was devolved on to them.

 

Source: The Hindu

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