Gurdwara Rakab Ganj Sahib

Gurdwara Rakab Ganj Sahib, near Parliament House in New Delhi, marks the place where Guru Tegh Bahadur, the ninth Sikh Guru, was cremated after his execution on Aurangzeb's orders in November 1675. Lakhi Shah Banjara and his son set fire to their own house to cremate the Guru's headless body in secret. Guru Gobind Singh later found the spot and raised a simple memorial, and the Sikh leader Baghel Singh built a gurdwara here after taking Delhi in 1783.

The site was disputed several times, including over a boundary wall pulled down by the British in 1914 and rebuilt after protests. The present building was begun in 1960 and completed in the late 1960s, through the seva of Harnam Singh Suri. The gurdwara houses the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee and a 1984 memorial, the 'Wall of Truth', listing names of those killed in the violence against Sikhs that year. The place of the Guru's beheading is marked by Gurdwara Sis Ganj Sahib in Chandni Chowk.