Gurudwara Chhevin Patshahi Kurukshetra

The Shrine Gurudwara Chhevin Patshahi is located near Senaya Tank honoring Guru Hargobind who had visited Thanesar in 1638 during solar eclipse fair. During Guruji’s visit for this place in earlier periods, he had stayed for few days here on his return from Nanak Mata. People of this region having seen the Holy Gurus Guru Nanak and Guru Amardas appearing in attires of celibacy, were surprised to see Guru Hargobind who was armed with weapons besides being accompanied by armed attendants. But their doubts were cleared when they attended his spiritual discourses later. On the very spot where the Guru had had his stay during his visit was later made a memorial platform and over this platform Gurudwara Chhevin Patshahi was raised in 1909.

Other Gurudwaras in Kurukshetra

Kurukshetra is a location where the Sikh Gurus had visited during various periods of time and there are few other Gurudwaras worth visiting when one goes to this place.

• Gurudwara Raj Ghat Patshahi Dasvin is a Manji Sahib built for commemorating the visit of Guru Gobind Singh who came here during solar eclipse of 1702. This religious point is a single square hall with flat roof, located at the northwestern edge of a holy tank at where the Guru had stayed during his visit.
• Gurudwara Siddh Bati Patshahi Pahili another sacred shrine is said to have been appreciated by Holy Guru Nanakji when he came to Kurukshetra during a solar eclipse fair. According to legends, he had irritated the Brahman priests by making his people cook meat during Eclipse time which was considered a sacrilege, as eating meat was forbidden among Brahmins. Guru Nanakji however clarified them that the eclipses were the natural phenomenon and that has nothing to do with preparations of food or eating. He held a discourse for this and in the very place on the southern bank of the sacred tanks that this Gurudwara now exists.
• Gurudwara Dasvin Patshahi  a shrine located in a house in Mohalla Saudagaran which  belongs to  one of the descendants of Pandit Mani Ram, the one who had received  Guru Gobind Singh`s blessings during his visit to  Kurukshetra in 1702-03.
• Gurudwara Tisari and Satvin Patshahi, a shrine commemorating both Guru Amar Das and Guru HarRai and this Gurudwara is located in about half a kilometer from Thanesar railway station. It is known that Guru Amar Das had his visit to this place during solar eclipse in 1553. One of Guru Ram Das’s hymns in the Guru Granth Sahib indicates this visit.
• Gurudwara Navin Patshahi which is established north of the old town of Thanesar is another spot dedicated to Guru Tegh Bahadur. Guruji had come to this place from Barna in the course of one of his travels through these parts.

How to Reach Kurukshetra

Kurukshetra City is located 160 km from Delhi, 39 Kilometers from Karnal and 40 Kilometers from Ambala. Pipli, a popular road junction on the National Highway No.1 known as the Grand Trunk Road, is in 6 km reach from Kurukshetra.

Kurukshetra Railway Station is in main Delhi-Ambala Railway line and all the fast and popular trains pass through this destination, which is historically famous, also has a halt here.

Delhi and Chandigarh airports are the nearby airports to Kurukshetra, and from these air ports one can reach Kurukshetra in a 2 hr drive.

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