Night view of Gurdwara Sri Bangla Sahib in Delhi

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GURDWARA SRI BANGLA SAHIB is situated in Delhi City. Built-in the sacred visit of SRI GURU HARKARISHAN JI to Delhi. At the request of Mughal King Aurangzeb and through the persuasion of Mirza Raja Jai Singh of Amber, GURU SAHIB agreed to come to Delhi. Raja Jai Singh invited GURU SAHIB to the present site which originally belonged to Raja Jai Singh. Raja's wife thought of testing the spiritual powers of the GURU SAHIB and disguised herself as a maid servant and sat among the attendants. GURU SAHIB at the age of 8 years identified the RANI and sat in her lap. Thus convincing her of the spiritual powers of SRI GURU NANAK DEV JI and his True Disciples. In those days smallpox was raging in the city of Delhi on an epidemic form. The citizens of Delhi suffered grief and death As a result of cala