Akal Takht

Akal Takht - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Akal Takht (Gurmukhi: ਅਕਾਲ ਤਖ਼ਤ, ; ; originally Akal Bunga) is one of five takhts (seats of power) of the Sikhs. It is located in the Darbar Sahib (Golden Temple) complex in Amritsar, Punjab, India. The Akal Takht (originally called Akal Bunga) was built by Guru Hargobind as a place of justice and consideration of temporal issues; the highest seat of earthly authority of the Khalsa (the collective body of the Sikhs) and the place of the Jathedar, the highest spokesman of the Sikhs. Read more on Wikipedia

type: building
date from: 1606

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