Arjan, the fifth Guru and the first born to the office, raises the Harimandir, the Golden Temple, in the middle of Amritsar's pool, set lower than the town around it and open on four sides to all comers; under him the community grows into a settled religious society.
Tagged: Sahajdhari Sikh
The Event
- Date
- 1581 (exact)
- Era
- The Guru Period; Standard periodization of Sikh history
- Location
- Amritsar; today Punjab, India
- Traditions
- Sikhism
- Streams
- Sahajdhari
- Key figures
- Guru Arjan
Primary Sources
- Janamsakhis
Secondary Sources
- Grewal, The Sikhs of the Punjab (Cambridge, 1990)
- Khushwant Singh, A History of the Sikhs, vol. 1 (Oxford, 2nd ed. 2004)
Provenance: HIST-0506; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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