Historical
Gurdwaras in
Foreign Lands
PAKISTAN
Sialkot Gurdwara
Nanaksar (Sahowal)
Sahowal, about eight kilometers from Sialkot
is in Sambharial police circle. Guru Nanak
Dev came here from Sialkot and stayed
under a ber tree for a few days near a
pond which was later lined into a sarovar
named Nanaksar. The shrine established
here is also called Gurdwara Nanaksar.
The old ber tree, reverently called Ber
Sahib still stood in the Gurdwara compound
when it was abandoned in the wake of Partition.
It is doubtful whether the Gurdwara stil
exists because Mohammad Waliullah Khan,
Sikh Shrines in West Pakistan, makes no
mention of it. Yet it had listed in Tara
Singh Narotam, Shri Guru Tirath Sangrah
and was one of the scheduled Gurdwaras
affiliated to the S.G.P.C. under the Sikh
Gurdwaras Act, 1925.
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