Historical Gurdwaras in India

State of HARYANA

Barna

Gurdwara Navin Patshahi

Gurdwara Navin Patshahi - Barna village in Kurukshetra district is 20 kilometres southwest of the district town and is linked to the Kurukshetra - Kaithal road. Guru Tegh Bahadur arrived here from Kaithal winding up his tour of Malva and Bangar. A Sikh peasant served the Guru and said to him that he would go to his fields where an official had come to measure them. The Guru remarked, "Stay here; your fields are beyond measure." And indeed the surveying official could not determine the exact area of his land, although he had measured it thrice. The peasant then told him what Guru Tegh Bahadur had casually remarked. The official asked the peasant to lead him to the Guru, on meeting whom he too became a Sikh. According to local tradition, another Sikh couple, Bhai Suddha and his childless wife, also took the Guru to their house. The Guru blessed them. It was their house which became a holy shrine for the devotees. Bhai Udai Singh of Kaithal built a Gurdwara on this site. This building too, has been replaced by a new one during the 1970s. The present Gurdwara Navin Patshahi, as it is called, has a two-storey domed building. It is maintained by the village sangat.