India Asks Iraq To Renovate Historic Baba Nanak Gurdwara In Baghdad | India News

India has formally requested Iraq to rebuild the Baba Nanak Gurdwara in Baghdad. The matter was raised by Indian National safety advisor Ajit Doval with Iraqi NSA Qasem Al Araji throughout his Delhi go to. This has been a long-standing demand of the Sikh group as effectively, with the matter being raised by them Iraqi authorities up to now a number of instances. 

Araji was in India from March 23 to March 25 on the invitation of Indian NSA Ajit Doval.

 

The Baba Nanak Gurdwara in Baghdad is a major non secular website for the Sikh group. The Gurdwara was in-built reminiscence of Guru Nanak, the founding father of the Sikh faith, who visited the town round 1511 AD.

The Gurdwara was found by Dr. Kirpal Singh, a captain within the Indian Medical Service of the British Indian military throughout World War I, who positioned it within the west of Baghdad city. The Gurdwara was principally destroyed through the Iraq conflict in 2003.

In 1982, Major General Harkirat Singh, the nephew of Dr. Kirpal Singh, visited Baghdad to encourage the native Sikh group to rebuild the Baba Nanak Shrine into a significant gurudwara. After Major General Harkirat Singh handed away in 1983, the group took up the duty of rebuilding it. The Gurdwara’s format and inscription on a stone pill had been documented within the e-book “Divine Master,” written by Sardar Sewaram Singh, a Sessions Judge and the daddy of Major General Harkirat Singh.

The Iraqi Government expressed a need to rebuild the Gurdwara in 2007, and since 2018, a gate has been erected to guard the house the place the previous gurudwara as soon as stood. Only elements of an outer wall and one Mehrab stay in one of many partitions, however efforts are underway to rebuild the Gurdwara to its former glory. The Baba Nanak Shrine stays a major website for the Sikh group and a testomony to the enduring legacy of Guru Nanak.

Mukhtiar Singh Assal, chairman Indian Sikh Council knowledgeable Zee News that he has been in contact with the Iraq Embassy, and had a collection of conferences on this regard the embassy of Iraq can be seeming to be very eager to work on the venture of Gurdwara Sahib in Bagdad. “This gesture will promote the India-Iraq relations,” he added.