Sikh Temple, Known as Gurdwara Bangla Sahib Located near one of the main squares of New Delhi's Connaught Place.
The first track east of this temple is its special golden dome and its pristine white facade. However, the arrival is not at all nice again. I remember at the time I thought (or perhaps the same Indian guide told us) that we end up getting used. On the one hand the grinding poverty that is breathed from you put your foot on the first of the access steps, very skinny kids that attacked us to ask for things. But on the other hand, is the dirt of the temple, on the other hand, common throughout India.
As the temple is prohibited from entering footwear and bare-headed, so the first thing we had to do was take off our shoes and leave them at the entrance (calm, not take them), and second place an orange scarf who give tied on the head.
Forget about the scruples in India: Try not to think or who will have taken the handkerchief or you will have to step barefoot on wet soil with a liquid suspiciously yellow. Try to Relax and Enjoy integrals and especially in the Indian culture itself. It is the best way to experience the taste of India.
Sikh Temple was originally a palace inhabited by the Raja Jai Singh, an important ruler of India in the seventeenth century. There lived also one of the most important gurus sikh, Har Krishan, circa 1664. He helped the people of Delhi by providing food and water when a cholera epidemic swept through the city. Since then, Hindus believe that the well water of this temple is curative, and therefore, you will see the mass in it, as it is now an important center of pilgrimage, not only for the Sikh race.
Inside the temple has virtually nothing to do, really. It consists of the part of a temple, a school and a kitchen, from which they feed the poorest of Delhi, who daily come to this temple to eat. Outside, a huge swimming pool surrounded by columns gives freshness to the Gurdwara Bangla Sahib. Every morning at dawn, was full of Indians who go there to be purified. That pool also will see her Sikh soldiers surrounded the guard, and there are often baptized those who take refuge in that religion.
Without further ado, we left the temple to pick up our shoes again (by the way, remember to cast many socks in your suitcase if you want to go completely bare, because each church will follow the same ritual), and move towards our next visit: Parliament and India Gate. |