File:1860s photo of the Amritsar Golden Temple with the British style Gothic Clock Tower.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

1860s_photo_of_the_Amritsar_Golden_Temple_with_the_British_style_Gothic_Clock_Tower.jpg(712 × 392 pixels, file size: 80 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary[edit]

Description
English: From the source:

Photograph of the Golden Temple at Amritsar by an unknown photographer in the 1860s, from the Crofton Collection: 'Topographical and architectural views mostly in India'.

The Hari Mandir or Golden Temple at Amritsar stands in the middle of a tank known since the time of the fourth Guru Ram Das (1574-81) as the Amrit Sarovar or ‘Pool of Immortality-Giving Nectar’. Sikh devotees regard the temple as an important pilgrimage site and come to bathe in the purifying waters of the tank, view the temple deity and receive religious teachings from the original Sikh holy book, the Adi Granth.

Other information:

The clock tower seen behind to the right of the golden sanctum and pool was built in the 1860s by the colonial British India after the Second Anglo-Sikh War and annexation of the Sikh Empire, despite opposition by the Sikh community. The Gothic Cathedral-style tower was completed in 1872. It was demolished about 70 years later.
Date
Source http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/g/019pho0000096s1u00014000.html
Author Unknown (1860-1869)

Licensing[edit]

Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer.


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current14:28, 15 October 2017Thumbnail for version as of 14:28, 15 October 2017712 × 392 (80 KB)Ms Sarah Welch (talk | contribs)User created page with UploadWizard

There are no pages that use this file.

File usage on other wikis

The following other wikis use this file: