Minaret at Tarn Taran Amritsar ,East Punjab ,India

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Minaret at Darbar Sahib Tarn Taran Amritsar, East Punjab, India. 

These are photographs of English commemorative board and 156 feet tall Minaret located at right side of Shri Darbar Sahib Tarn Taran Amritsar, East Punjab, India. English commemorative board erected by the Manager provides this historical information about this beautiful minaret:

' This minaret was built by Kanwar Naunihal Singh Grand son Great King Ranjit Singh in 1839, this three storey minaret is located at the right side of Sh. Darbar Sahib. Its length is 156 feet 6 inch nearby villages 10-12 miles away can be seen from its top floor. It is a wonderful representation architecture of Sikh Kingdom.

 From Manager. '

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1- Commemorative board

Courtesy by Ranjit Sandhu Ji

Historic Temple at Multan

Historic Temple at Multan


These are photographs commemorative stone and Ancient building of historical temple located at Hussain Aghai Multan, Punjab, Pakistan. We need reoman translation of the Commemorative stone.


Courtesy by Mr. Kashif Ghurki Sahib

Kirti Stambh located at Chittorgarh, Rajasthan, India

This photograph contains the pictures of Hindi commemorative stone and Ancient Jain Kirti Stambh located at Chittorgarh fort Rajasthan, India. This tower dedicated to Adinatha, the first of twentyfour Tirthankars, was built by Digambara Jain community in the 12th century A. D. It is 75' high with a narrow staircase.


Hindi commemorative stone Describes all this information :


' Keerti Stambh


Prtham Jain tirthankar Adinath ko smarpit is stambh ka nirman Bhagerwal Sampardaye me shresthi Jeeja evm Puransingh ne Bikini samvat 1357(1301 AD) me karwaya. 24.5 meter uncha chhe manzila stambh chokor (square) Jagti (Foundation) par sathit hai jisme uper ki manzil tak pahunchne ke liye andar se sopan (stairs) bane hain jahan 12 stambhon par aadharit ek mandap hai. Nichle varg ke bahari bhag me char tirthankron kind murtian utkirn (situated) hain. Upri manzilon ko saikdon manav akrition (murtian) as alankrit (decorated) kiya gaya ha. Iske samip hi unchi jagti par sathit chohdhvin sadi me nirmit Jain mandir hai jo ki yojna me garbhgrih tatha mandap yukat hai. Mandir ka andruni bhag murtion see alankrit hair.'




Photographs gifted by Inderjeet Singh Sahib

The Chor Minar

The people of Delhi – at least their rulers — have always been barbarians. The Chor Minar, meaning ‘the tower of the thief’, served to display the severed heads of alleged criminals.

Situated in South Delhi’s upper crust Hauz Khas enclave, the round tower is believed to have come up during the Khijji era (1290–1320). Its thick wall of rubble has 225 circular holes where the heads were put up as exhibits.

Today, crows and koels sit in these holes. Squirrels run up and down the tower. A circular garden is landscaped around the structure. This green space doubles up as a traffic roundabout. It is surrounded by bungalows — The Delhi Walla can hear the tunes of a yearning violin coming out of a curtained window. The only other sounds are of birds, cars and airplanes.

There is a bench, so come with a murder mystery, or a book on Delhi’s horror-filled past.
In Delhi: A Historical Sketch, historian Percival Spear writes:

The reign of Ala-ad-din marks the peak of the Delhi Sultanate and is an epoch in the history of the city. Ala-ad-din first dealt with the Mongol menace and checked their incessant frontier raids. In Delhi itself the Mongol colony which had grown up during the previous century was massacred, and the heads of the victims were displayed upon pikes fixed in a tower outside the city. It is possible that the Chor Minar, a half ruined tower to the left of the Delhi-Qutub road, about two miles from the Qutub, is the tower of this tragedy.

The entry to the tower’s spiral staircase is locked but you may hear the chee-chee sound of bats inside.

Don’t fail to look at the tower from outside the garden. You would feel that its top, too, was lopped off. Such is our heritage.

BY:Bains Davinder