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town, municipality, mandal headquarter
Tehsil Sri Anandpur Sahib, District Rupnagar, Punjab, Bharat.
Anandpur Sahib is a town and municipal council in the Rupnagar (Ropar) District of Punjab. It is also a sub-district in the Rupnagar District.
The City of Bliss.Major Sikh center and important place in Sikh and Indian history.
Famous for Hola festival.
Anandpur Sahib was founded in the year 1665 by the ninth Sikh Guru, Guru Tegh Bahadur, near the ruins of an ancient place, Makhowal. On May 13, 1665, Guru Tegh Bahadur went to Bilaspur to attend the mourning for Raja Dip Chand of Bilaspur State. The Dowager Rani Champa of Bilaspur offered to give the Guru a piece of land in her state. The Guru bought the site on payment of five hundred rupees. The land consisted of the villages of Lodhipur, Mianpur and Sahota. Here on the mound of Makhowal, Guru Tegh Bahadur raised a new habitation. The ground was broken on 19 June 1665, by Baba Gurditta Randhawa. The new village was named Chakk Nanaki after the Guru's mother, Nanaki. The place later came to be known as Anandpur Sahib.
Additional wikipedia links:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keshgarh_Fort
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keshgarh_Sahib
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohgarh
Anandpur Sahib is a town and municipal council in the Rupnagar (Ropar) District of Punjab. It is also a sub-district in the Rupnagar District.
The City of Bliss.Major Sikh center and important place in Sikh and Indian history.
Famous for Hola festival.
Anandpur Sahib was founded in the year 1665 by the ninth Sikh Guru, Guru Tegh Bahadur, near the ruins of an ancient place, Makhowal. On May 13, 1665, Guru Tegh Bahadur went to Bilaspur to attend the mourning for Raja Dip Chand of Bilaspur State. The Dowager Rani Champa of Bilaspur offered to give the Guru a piece of land in her state. The Guru bought the site on payment of five hundred rupees. The land consisted of the villages of Lodhipur, Mianpur and Sahota. Here on the mound of Makhowal, Guru Tegh Bahadur raised a new habitation. The ground was broken on 19 June 1665, by Baba Gurditta Randhawa. The new village was named Chakk Nanaki after the Guru's mother, Nanaki. The place later came to be known as Anandpur Sahib.
Additional wikipedia links:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keshgarh_Fort
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keshgarh_Sahib
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohgarh
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anandpur_Sahib
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 31°13'58"N 76°30'19"E
- Nangal 25 km
- New Chandigarh 46 km
- Kharar, SAS Nagar 52 km
- Hamirpur 54 km
- Mandi Gobindgarh 65 km
- Nabha 100 km
- Samana 122 km
- Paonta Sahib 129 km
- Vikasnagar 144 km
- Dakpathar 145 km
- Khalsa Heritage Complex Anandpur Sahib Punjab 0.2 km
- Old Original settlements Anandpur Sahib 0.8 km
- Shamsher 3.2 km
- Shri Dasmesh Academy Academy 3.4 km
- Govindpur Bela 4.2 km
- Ganguwal 4.2 km
- Hydro Power Plants Ganguwal 4.3 km
- Gurudwara Qila Taragarh Sahib 4.4 km
- village jajjar 4.9 km
- Gobind Sagar Reservoir 21 km
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