#SHABAD KIRTAN DARBAR SAHIB SERIES#

Archived from the original on 21 October 2016. Archived from the original on 13 November 2014. Archived from the original on 26 October 2018.

^ 'Giani Harpreet Singh is acting jathedar of Akal Takht'.

(ed.) 'The encyclopedia of Christianity.' Archived at the Wayback Machine Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2008. Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Bhindranwale was killed in action during exchange of fire between the armed Militants and the Indian Army. Bhindranwale had transformed the Golden Temple into an armed fortress with the militants carrying guns ranging from AK-47's to LMG's and Carl-Gustav rocket launchers. The Akal Takht was heavily damaged during this operation by the Indian Army.

Between 3 June and 8 June 1984, the Indian army conducted a counter-insurgency operation, ordered by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, to arrest Bhindranwale for operating terror activities from the sacred Golden Temple Complex. In July 1983, the Sikh political party Akali Dal's President Harcharan Singh Longowal and the jathedar of the Akal Takht invited the fourteenth jathedar of Damdami taksal Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, who was on the run for radicalized militancy in Punjab, popular in much of rural Punjab, to hide in the Golden Temple Complex, later moving to the Akal Takht to protect himself from getting arrested. Contemporary restoration work found a layer of paint decorated lime plaster that might have been part of the original structure but later than the time of Harminder. Three of the stories were added by Ranjit Singh in the 1700s. The modern building is a five-story structure with marble inlay and a gold-leafed dome. There were also painted wall panels depicting Europeans. Later, there was an open-air semi-circular structure built on marble pillars and a gilded interior section. He was surrounded by insignia of royalty such as the parasol and the flywhisk. The original Takht was a simple platform, 3.5 metres (11Р’В ft) high, on which Guru Hargobind would sit in court to receive petitions and administer justice. It was a place where Guru Hargobind played as a child. The Akal Takht was built on a site where there existed only a high mound of earth across a wide-open space. On 4 June 1984, the Akal Takht was damaged when the Indian Army stormed Harmandir Sahib under the order of Indira Gandhi, then Prime minister of India, during Operation Blue Star. Hari Singh Nalwa, a general of Ranjit Singh, the maharaja, decorated the Akhal Takht with gold. Takht which is on the first floor was rebuilt in brick between 1770РІР‚вЂњ1780, under Sultan-ul-Qaum Jassa Singh Ahluwalia (1718РІР‚вЂњ1783) РІР‚вЂњ the leader of the Sikh Confederacy in Punjab.

#SHABAD KIRTAN DARBAR SAHIB SERIES#

In the 18th century, Ahmed Shah Abdali and Massa Rangar led a series of attacks on the Akal Takht and Harmandir Sahib. When Guru Hargobind revealed the platform on 15 June 1606, he put on two swords: one indicated his spiritual authority ( piri) and the other, his temporal authority ( miri). Along with Baba Buddha and Bhai Gurdas, the sixth Sikh Guru built a 9-foot-high concrete slab. Originally known as Akal Bunga, the building directly opposite the Harmandir Sahib was founded by sixth Sikh Guru, Guru Hargobind, as a symbol of political sovereignty and where spiritual and temporal concerns of the Sikh people could be addressed. Р”Р„kal Takht and Harmandir Sahib, Amritsar, Punjab, India. The current Jathedar of Akal Takht appointed by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee is Giani Harpreet Singh, while the Sarbat Khalsa calls for the reinstitution of Jagtar Singh Hawara. The Akal Takht (originally called Akal Bunga) was built by Shri Guru Hargobind Ji as a place of justice and consideration of temporal issues the highest seat of earthly authority of the Khalsa (the collective body of the Sikhs) and the place of the Jathedar, the highest spokesman of the Sikhs. It is located in the Darbar Sahib (Golden Temple) complex in Amritsar, Punjab, India. The Akal Takht ('Throne of the Timeless One') is one of five takhts (seats of power) of the Sikhs.

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