page_title: Kiratpur Sahib
section_title: Kiratpur Sahib Town
hierarchical_section_title: Kiratpur Sahib / Kiratpur Sahib Town
caption_attribution_description: Yet another ever closer front view of Gurdwara Charan Kamal, Kiratpur, Punjab, India showing the long, steep and wide steps leading up to the main prayer hall. Read more at Sikhiwiki - follow the link: www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Gurdwara_Charan_Kamal Deutsch: Gurdwara Charan Kamal in Kiratpur Sahib (Punjab)
context_page_description: Kiratpur also known as Kiratpur Sahib is a town in Rupnagar district, Punjab, India. The town is the location of the Gurdwara Patal Puri where Sikhs take ashes of their dead.
context_section_description: Kiratpur Sahib (31.1820758°n 76.5635490°e) was established in 1627
  by the 6th Sikh Guru, Guru Hargobind Sahib ji, who bought the land from Raja Tara Chand of Kehloor through his son, Baba Gurditta. The place is also associated with the memory of a Muslim saint, Pir Buddan Shah.
  It is situated on the bank of the Sutlej about 10 km south of Anandpur, about 30 km north of Rupnagar and 90 km from Chandigarh on the Nangal-Rupnagar-Chandigarh road (NH21).
  It is a sacred place for the Sikhs. Guru Nanak Dev is said to have visited this place when it was little more than a wilderness. Guru Hargobind, the sixth Guru spent the last few years of his life here. Both Guru Har Rai and Guru Harkrishan were also born at this place and they received the Gurgadi (Guruship) at this place.
  There is a reference to this place in the hit film, Veer-Zaara (2004). Zohra Sehgal, plays a character in this movie whose last wish is that her ashes should be immersed in Kiratpur.
caption: Gurdwara Charan Kamal, Kiratpur Sahib, Punjab.
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