Sacred to Sikhism's Final Chapter — Hazur Sahib (Sachkhand Sri Hazur Abchalnagar Sahib) is one of the five Takhts of Sikhism, where Guru Gobind Singh spent his final years, and the golden gurdwara on the Godavari River is the most important pilgrimage site for Sikhs outside Punjab
Nanded is a historic city on the Godavari River in Maharashtra's Marathwada region, sacred to Sikhism as the site where Guru Gobind Singh, the 10th and final human Sikh Guru, spent the last years of his life and passed away in 1708. Hazur Sahib — officially Sachkhand Sri Hazur Abchalnagar Sahib — is one of the five Takhts (thrones of temporal authority in Sikhism) and the second holiest site in Sikhism after the Golden Temple in Amritsar. The golden-domed gurdwara complex on the banks of the Godavari was built by Maharaja Ranjit Singh in 1832 and draws hundreds of thousands of Sikh pilgrims a…
Guru Gobind Singh arrived in Nanded (then called Nander, in the Hyderabad Deccan) in 1707, following Emperor Aurangzeb's death and the subsequent Mughal succession wars. At Nanded, he formally declared the end of the line of human Gurus, transferring Sikh authority to the Sri Guru Granth Sahib (the holy scripture) — an act of enormous theological significance that shaped Sikhism as it exists today. He was wounded in an assassination attempt and died in October 1708; the spot of his funeral pyre (angitha) is one of the most sacred shrines within the Hazur Sahib complex. Maharaja Ranjit Singh o…