Place · Sikh pilgrimage town · India
Fatehgarh Sahib
Also known as Sahibzada Zorawar Singh & Fateh Singh
The city at Fatehgarh in Punjab, 50 kilometres from Chandigarh — the site of the 1704 martyrdom of Baba Zorawar Singh (age 9) and Baba Fateh Singh (age 7), the two younger sons (sahibzade) of Guru Gobind Singh. The sons were captured during Guru Gobind Singh's family's winter flight from Anandpur in 1704, taken to the Mughal governor Wazir Khan at Sirhind, offered conversion to Islam which they refused, and bricked alive in a wall by Wazir Khan's order on 26 December 1704. The site of the brick-wall execution is marked by the Gurudwara Fatehgarh Sahib (1710). The annual Shaheedi Jor Mela each 25-28 December commemorates the martyrdom with over 2 million pilgrims. The adjacent Jyoti Swaroop Gurdwara marks the cremation site. The city is one of five Takhts of Sikhism indirectly honoured through this martyrdom site.
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 30.642, 76.389
Connections (1)
- Same eventAnandpur Sāhib
After Anandpur was abandoned under siege in December 1705, Guru Gobind Singh's two younger sons, aged about six and nine, were captured with their grandmother and bricked alive into a wall at Sirhind on refusing to convert. Fatehgarh Sahib marks the spot. The episode is commemorated annually in the bitter cold of late December, and it is the emotional centre of the Sikh account of that winter.
Sources
Wikipedia, “Fatehgarh Sahib”. Archaeological Survey of India and State Archaeology monument records, and the standard regional literature.
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