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AMRITSAR
TARNTARAN
JALANDHAR
GURDASPUR
GOINDWAL
LAHORE, PAKISTAN
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 Gurdwara
Lal Khooh is situated behind the water tank or Pani Wala Talab near Muhalla
Barudkhana in the centre of Lahore City. Chandu's haveli was situated there.
In A.D. 1606, after the arrest of Guru Arjan, Chandu kept the Guru in one of
the dingy cells here. There was a well in this building from where the Guru
used to bathe daily. The Guru was tortured by Chandu at this very place. He
was boiled alive in a big bowl; made to sit on a red hot iron plate and the
scorched sand was poured on his head. But the Guru did not express even a
single sigh of sorrow or grief. He considered it a Sweet will of his Master.
When in A.D. 1619, the sixth Guru Hargobind visited Lahore, the Sikh Sangat
dragged Chandu through nose in the bazaars. When he was brought in that
state near that well, the grain roaster, who was ordered to pour hot sand on
Guru Arjan's body, shot him with the very ladles and he died in an
ignominious manner. A Gurdwara was built there. At the beginning, Gurdwara
Lal Khooh was very small but later, the Sangat purchased the adjoining houses
and built a befitting building. This shrine was under Local Committee
Management but in 1927, S.G.P.C. took its charge according to the Gurdwara
Act.
Acknowledgements:
Published by SGPC, Historical Sikh Shrines in Pakistan : Iqbal Qaiser |
