Gurdwara Pakki Sangat, Munger
Gurudwara · Guru Tegh Bahadur, the ninth Sikh Guru · Belan Bazar, Munger, Bihar
Guru Tegh Bahadur stayed here on his journey east to Assam, and it was at Munger that he received news...
A rectangular room with a verandah housing the Guru Granth Sahib. It was damaged in the 1934 earthquake and rebuilt within a year. Two relics are kept here, a cot and a pillow said to have been used by the Guru. It is served by Brahman priests. Roughly 170 km east of Patna Sahib by rail.
Plan your visit
- Area
- Munger
- Status
- Coming Soon
Yatras that include Gurdwara Pakki Sangat
- Sikh Yatra: Munger, on the Guru's route east. Rarely visited.
Tirtham can arrange here
Guide, car and stay around Munger
Also around Munger
- Manjusha art of Bhagalpur: The only Indian folk painting told as a strip, in three colours, of the Bihula-Bishahari legend; GI-registered in 2021.
- Bhagalpur silk: The tussar silk of the Silk City, GI-registered in 2013.
- Jardalu mango: Bhagalpur's pale, fragrant mango, sent every year to the President; GI-registered in 2018.
- Katarni rice and chura: The fragrant rice of the Munger-Bhagalpur plain, GI-registered in 2018, best known here as beaten rice.
- Dahi chura on Makar Sankranti: The Makar Sankranti breakfast across Bihar: flattened rice, curd and jaggery, with tilkut after.
- Thekua, the Chhath prasad: The moulded wheat-and-jaggery biscuit every Bihari home fries for Chhath.
Nearby places
- Chandika Sthan: For darshan at a Shakti Peetha, and specifically for vows about eye ailments
- Kastaharni Ghat: The name means "the bathing place which expels all pains"; pilgrims bathe here believing it relieves...
- Pir Shah Nafah Shrine: The Pir is regarded as the protector of the town and the shrine as a place of wish fulfilment; both...
- Munger Fort: It is the enclosure for Munger's principal Muslim shrine and the anchor of the town's pilgrim circuit
Questions pilgrims ask
Why is Gurdwara Pakki Sangat important?
A rectangular room with a verandah housing the Guru Granth Sahib. It was damaged in the 1934 earthquake and rebuilt within a year. Two relics are kept here, a cot and a pillow said to have been used by the Guru. It is served by Brahman priests. Roughly 170 km east of Patna Sahib by rail.
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