Gurdwara Bal Lila Maini Sangat
Gurudwara · Guru Gobind Singh (as a child) · Patna City, Patna, Bihar
Pilgrims come for the childhood association with Guru Gobind Singh, and receive boiled salted gram as...
The house of Raja Fateh Chand Maini, where the childless queen fed the young Gobind Rai and his playmates. A wood carving on the original front door is dated 28 August 1668; the sanctum hall and surrounding rooms have been rebuilt recently. Unusually among the Patna shrines, it is served by Nirmala Sikhs.
Plan your visit
- Area
- Patna
- Status
- Coming Soon
Yatras that include Gurdwara Bal Lila Maini Sangat
- Sikh Yatra: Where he played as a child. A few minutes from the Takht.
Experiences here
- Langar at Patna Sahib: Everybody eats, sitting on the same floor, at one of the five Takhts
Tirtham can arrange here
Guide, car and stay around Patna
Also around Patna
- Bihar Museum: The state's own account of itself, from the Didarganj Yakshi to the present, in one building on Nehru Path.
- Golghar, the granary on the Ganga: A British granary of 1786 built after the famine of 1770, and the widest view of the Ganga at Patna from its top.
- Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library: One of India's great manuscript libraries, open to the public since 1891, with a Quran 2.5 mm wide.
- Ganga aarti at Gandhi Ghat: The evening aarti on the Ganga that the Bihar government holds at Patna every weekend.
- Litti chokha: The dish people mean when they say Bihari food.
- Maner laddu: The laddu Bihar Tourism names as the finest in the state, from the town of the Maner Sharif dargah.
Nearby places
- Mahavir Mandir, Patna: Patna's beloved Hanuman temple
- Takht Sri Patna Sahib: Birthplace of Guru Gobind Singh Ji
- Gurdwara Gobind Ghat: It commemorates the incident in which Gobind Rai threw his gold bangle (kangan) into the Ganga as a...
- Gurdwara Guru ka Bagh: It marks the spot where Guru Tegh Bahadur first alighted on his return, and where he met his son Guru...
- Gurudwara Handi Sahib: To honour the handi of khichri offered to the child Guru; a distinctive evening prayer here recalls his...
- Gurdwara Gai Ghat: It commemorates Guru Nanak's stay in Patna and is part of the Bihar government's "Guru Circuit" of Sikh...
- Badi Patan Devi: Devotees believe the right thigh (and the *pata*, the cloth, from which "Patan" and the city's name are...
- Choti Patan Devi: It is the second of the two Patan Devi shrines associated with the fall of Sati's remains at Magadha
Questions pilgrims ask
Why is Gurdwara Bal Lila Maini Sangat important?
The house of Raja Fateh Chand Maini, where the childless queen fed the young Gobind Rai and his playmates. A wood carving on the original front door is dated 28 August 1668; the sanctum hall and surrounding rooms have been rebuilt recently. Unusually among the Patna shrines, it is served by Nirmala Sikhs.
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