GURU BADSHAHI BAGH , AMBALA

Gurudwara Badshahi Bagh, near district courts Ambala city, commemorates the visit of Guru Gobind Singh who stayed here while coming from Lakhnaur,
where he had gone to meet his maternal parents.

GurudwaraBadshahi Bagh commemorates the visit of Guru Gobind Singh Ji, the Tenth Guru, who visited this place around 1670 during one of his
excursions to Lakhnaur. While on a hunting trip one day on his horse, he came to a big garden just outside the city of Ambala.
Then only a small
child of eight years, he had with him his white hawk as well. The garden belonged to Pir Amir Din, the custodian of the Muslim shrines of the city.
He happened to be present in the garden at the same time. Pir Amir Din had with him a black hawk. On seeing Guru ji’s white hawk, the Pir took
a liking to it and began thinking of how to take it himself. He threw a challenge to the Guru for a fight between the two hawks. But, Guruji
realizing the real intention of the Pir, refused and said that instead of the hawk, he would make sparrows fight the Pir’s hawk. The Pir laughed
and said that sparrows were food for his hawk, but Guruji repeated his words. With this, Guruji called upon two sparrows that were sitting on a
tree to fight with the hawk. The sparrows fought so ferociously that the hawk was injured badly. It finally fell to its death about a kilometer away,
near Labbu ka Talaab, the site of GurudwaraGobindpura.
The Pir realized his folly and built a platform in honor of the Guru. It is here that Guru
Gobind Singh uttered his famous words: Chirion se main baaz turaun, Tabe Gobind Singh naam kahaun. (It is when I make sparrows fight hawks
that I am called Gobind Singh)

 Every year a big festival is held here on the Baisakhi, regarded as the birthday of Khalsa Panth Keeping in view the historical importance of three
holy shrines.
 GURUDWARA MANJI SAHIB, AMBALA

AMBALA city was sanctified by the sixth Guru Sri Hargobind and Sri Guru Gobind Singh the tenth Guru. Gurudwara Manji Sahib was constructed
at the place where the sixth Guru stayed during his visit to Ambala city. The grand building of the Gurudwara is located on the G.T. Road
(Sher Shah Suri Marg). The devotees visit this shrine to have a dip in the tank nearby. They also take Amrit from the Baoli constructed by
the sixth Guru, during his stay here.   Gurdwara Baoli Sahib or Gurdwara Manji Sahib - Guru Hargobind is said to have stayed here overnight
while on his way to meet emperor Jahangir. The villagers of the nearby Khurampur Majri complained of perennial scarcity of drinking water.
The Guru encouraged them a dig a baoli and instructed some Sikhs who lived here to assist the villagers in digging and lining the baoli.
The Guru was pleased to see the work completed on his return from Delhi. The Sikhs established a memorial platform, Manji Sahib, at the
place where the Guru had stayed near the baoli. But the baoli again got partly filled up and fell into disuse.
After the conquest of Sirhind in 1764, when the Dal Khalsa distributed territories among various misls, Ambala was occupied by Sardar Mehar
Singh of Nishananwali Misl. He got the baoli cleared and cleaned and established a Gurdwara at the site of the manji Sahib. This is the present
Gurdwara Manji Sahib, the premier Gurdwara of Ambala. Maharaja Hira Singh of Nabha (1871-1911) rebuilt it in the beginning of the 20th century.
. The old baoli
is still there and therefore the Gurdwara is also called Baoli Sahib.
 GURUDWARA GOBINDPURA , AMBALA

Gurdwara Gobind Pura Sahib is associated with Guru Gobind Singh Ji. When the Guru made sparrows fight and then kill Pir Amir Din’s hawk,
the hawk fell at this place. Guruji visited this place then and uttered his famous words:
Chirion se main baaz turaun, Tabe Gobind Singh naam kahaun Gidderon se main sher banaun, Tabe Gobind Singh naam kahaun Nichon se main
ucch banaun, Tabe Gobind Singh naam kahaun Sawa lakh se ek laraun, Tabe Gobind Singh naam kahaun.

(It is when I make sparrows fight hawks that I am called Gobind Singh It is when make I lions out of wolves that I am called Gobind Singh
It is when I make the lowly rise that I am called Gobind Singh It is when I make one fight a hundred thousand that I am called Gobind Singh)
 GURUDWARA LAKHNAUR SAHIB

Lakhnaur is a small village, situated at a distance of 12 km from Ambala city, on Ambala-Barrola road.
Here the tenth Guru spent about seven months during his childhood.

Gurdwara Lakhnaur Sahib derives its name from the village it is situated in. Lakhnaur is an old village 10 kilometres south of Ambala City
and 7 kilometres from Ambala Cantonment. It was the ancestral village of Guru Gobind Singh's mother, Mata Gujari, whose father,
Baba Lal Chand Subhikhi, and brother Bhai Mehar Chand, lived here. Guru Gobind Singh, then a child of four
years, arrived here from Patna in September 1670. Guru Tegh Bahadur had left Patna earlier and traveling via Delhi joined the family here at Lakhnaur,
again to proceed onwards alone leaving the family behind. They stayed at Lakhnaur for over six months until, summoned by Guru Teg Bahadur,
they joined the latter at Chakk Nanaki (Anandpur Sahib). It was at Lakhnaur that Pir Shah Bhikh (Bhikhan Shah) came and made his bow to the
young Gobind Rai whose birth he had divined earlier as an event propitious for humanity. Another Muslim divine, Pir Arif Din, is also said to have
made obeisance to Guru Gobind Singh here. After the departure of the holy family, the house in which they had lived during their stay at Lakhnaur
, was maintained as a holy shrine. During the later half of the eighteenth century when the Sikh misls held sway over the entire Punjab from
Indus to Yamuna, the house was converted into a proper Gurdwara.
 GURUDWARA SISKHANJ SAHIB

Gurdwara Sis Ganj (Mohalla Kainth Majri) - When Guru Gobind Singh passed through Ambala on his way to Kurukshetra in 1702,
he alighted under a tree near the potter's huts. Mehar Dhumian, now an old man, told him about the stranger with basket who had
stayed under the same tree 27 years earlier. When Guru Gobind Singh related to him the story of his father's martyrdom and of the
courageous devotee who had conveyed the former Guru's severed head to Anandpur, Mehar Dhumian bowed to him in awe and wonder
. The story spread and many people assembled to see Guru Gobind Singh, who held a congregation (satsang) there. The Guru is also said to
have visited the house where Bhai Jaita had stayed overnight. Both places became holy for the devotees who established tharas (platforms
) at them where they occasionally assembled for prayers. Gurdwara Satsant Sahib remained in private hands till 1934 when a local committee
was formed to manage it. A new building was raised during 1935. Further development has taken place since. A large hall now encloses the
old double-storey domed structure. To acquire Gurdwara Sis Ganj the Sikhs had to fight a court case, which going in their favour, the newly
formed Shriomani Gurdwara Committee took it over in 1926. All the five Gurdwaras are now administered by S.G.P.C. through a local
committee, which has its office at Gurdwara manji Sahib (Baoli Sahib).
 GURUDWARA PANJOKHRA SAHIB

Gurdwara Sri Guru Har Krishan Sahib Ji - 10 kilimetres northeast of Ambala City along the Ambala-Naraingarh road, marks the spot consecrated
by Guru Har Krishan, by his stay during his journey from Kiratpur to Delhi in February 1664.

Gurdwara Sri Guru Har Krishan Sahib Ji - 10 kilimetres northeast of Ambala City along the Ambala-Naraingarh road, marks the spot consecrated by
Guru Har Krishan, by his stay during his journey from Kiratpur to Delhi in February 1664.

The Guru resumed his journey after three days stay at Panjokhara. A small memorial raised in honor of the Guru was developed into a Gurdwara
during the Sikh Rule, and during the past decade or two has become a vast complex including the double-storey sanctum entered through a
spacious hall, Guru ka Langar with a vast dining hall, and enclosed sarovar and ancillary buildings for staff and pilgrims.

An annual fair is held on Magh Sudi 7 to 9 (January - February) commemorating the days of the Guru's stay here over 300 years ago.
Ambika Devi Temple
•There is no proof about the date temple was built.
• The shape and size of temple sugggests that it was built beside a water body (river)&a small
Hill. But with the passage of time everything changed.
•The interior darwings & the dome points towards its built before the mughal period
•With the passage of time devotees have added and reconstructed many parts to the temple.
•The temple is of great religious & symbolic importance for the local
•It’s believed that the temple was built in dwarpa yug. At the time of Mahabharat, fir goddess
•Amba, Ambika & Ambalika.
•In 1844, the muslims, broke down this temple & built a Masjid but later on the Masjid was broken
& temple was restored.
•In 1852 a dispute came again when a butcher house came infront of this temple but he was
ordered to shut down.
•The main gate of temple faces hartadl road. On it are two lions which were built on broken
Minars after the demolition of masjid.
•The temple organises half yearly mela for the city.
PRACHEEN SHIV PARIVAR MANDIR
•It was made 400 years before. It was made by ahluwalia tribe.
•When it was made there was a pond along with it.
•This temple is located on GT road ,near the cloth market of ambala.
•The pond was filled by mud & transformed into market.

SHIV MANDIR (near jain college)

•This temple was made 550 years ago.
•According to legends , when there was a fight between the Kaurva’s & Pandavas then Lord Krishna directed Arjuna to worship Lord Shiva.
•The pandavas were blessed by Shiv Parvati & were blessed with arms.
•At that time temple was very popular but later on with time it lost its importance.
•In 1532 it was recreated from its ruins by the Diwan –of-Kashmir. A pond was also constructed along its sides . A pond along with bathing facilities
Was also constructed alongside.
•In 1808, reconstruction of the temple with the pond & a gurudwara alongside was constructed by Maharaja Ranjit Singh under the supervision of Diwan
-Kishan Chand
After that annually a shivratri mela is held were thousands of devotees come to visit.
•In 1947 , the governor of Punjab & governor of Haryana, established many idols of Gods & Goddesses at this place.
•A new Maha Kaali Dukh Bhanjni temple is being constructed along with it.
 Located at Ambala, St Paul's Church is the oldest church in Ambala District.
This church was consecrated in January 1857 and was destroyed during the
Indo-Pak war of 1965. Now, one can see only the remains of the church
tower. The church now belongs to the Indian Air Force and the authorities
are planning to convert the bombed church into a war memorial chapel.

The church was bombed in September, 1965. It is believed that the aircraft
which bombed the church was hit by Air Force ground fire. The heavy metal
bell was, thereafter, shifted to near the Parsonage. The bell, which has been
built in England, has been mounted on two columns. The bombed church is
now within the Air Force school complex.