Historical Gurdwaras in Foreign Lands

PAKISTAN

Eminabad

Gurdwara Rori Sahib

Eminabad, an old town 15 kilimetres south of Gujranwala, is linked to Grand Trunk Road and Eminabad railway station by four-kilomtres stretch of metalled road. It has three historical shrines.

The Gurdwara Rori Sahib is half-a-kilometre northwest of the twon, marks the place where once Guru Nanak Dev, probably after the pillage of Eminabad by Babar in 1521, had to stay on a bed of broken stones (rori in Punjabi). Its central building is a three-storey imposing structure of cut brick work and is pyramidal in design with a rectangular hall adjoining it on one side and a sarovar on the other. There is another separate domed room with a circumambulatory verandah. Eminabad before partition was known for its week-long Baisakhi fair which included largely attended congregational gatherings of the Sikhs in Gurdwara Rori Sahib as well as the usual fun and cattle fair.