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unusual facts about Golden Temple


Golden Temple, Sripuram

The golden temple of 'Sripuram' (Tamil: ஸ்ரீபுரம்) is a spiritual park situated at the foot of a small range of green hills in a place known as "Malaikodi" in the city of Vellore in Tamil Nadu, India.


Amrik Singh

Amrik Singh (1948 – June 6, 1984) was the President of the Sikh Students Federation He was killed in the army operation in Golden Temple, Amritsar, on June 6, 1984.

Amritsar railway station

Distance from railway station: Golden temple 3.2 km, Jallianwallah Bagh 3.6 km, Durgiana temple 2 km, Palace of Maharaja Ranjit Singh 4.4 km, bus stand 2.7 km, airport 9.6 km, Wagah border 25 km.

Harjinder Singh Jinda

Jinda and Sukha's fathers were presented with gold medals by Golden Temple priest.

On their memorial service, hundreds of troops and police surrounded the Golden Temple.

In the early morning hundreds of Sikhs were ordered to move out of the Golden Temple.

On 9 October 2008, Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee honoured kin of Jinda and Sukha in the Golden Temple complex, to mark the anniversaries of their death.

Mark Tully

Tully's first book on India Amritsar: Mrs Gandhi's Last Battle (1985) was co-authored with his colleague in BBC Delhi, Satish Jacob; the book dealt with the events leading up to Operation Blue Star, the Indian army's attack on Sikh extremists in the Golden Temple at Amritsar.

Times of India's list of seven wonders of India

Except for the Golden Temple and the Taj Mahal, the Seven Wonders are all located in small towns or in the countryside.


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Buddha Dhatu Jadi

The Bandaban Golden Temple belongs to the Theravada Buddhism order, which is practiced by the Marma tribal people, a dominant ethnic group of Bandarban.

Kehar Singh

The assassination was motivated by Operation Blue Star which was carried out starting on 3 June 1984, the military action against the Sikh "Golden Temple" in Amritsar at Sikhism's holiest shrine.

Sikh Reference Library

In April 26, 2004, the Punjab and Haryana High Court ordered the Central Government, Government of Punjab, and the CBI to return the "valuables, books, scriptures, paintings, etc, that were seized from the Golden Temple during “Operation Bluestar” in 1984".