Gurdwara at Model Town Lahore with Unknown History

03-08-2018

31°29'27.87"N,  74°19'56.50"E

Somebody had conceived the idea in 1925 of acquiring a big tract of jungle wasteland, a few miles out of Lahore and develop a Town, dividing it up into plots, and constituting it as The Model Town Co-operative Society. Everyone who bought a plot became a member with a vote in the Society. The plan of the town was completely geometrical. It had a series of concentric circular roads, crossed by four main roads at right angles, and smaller roads in between, all beginning from the inner circle and dividing the area into equal segments. The roads had no name, but the blocks were alphabetically numbered. Along, with mosque and temple a Gurdwara complex was also constructed near to B Block market.

I tried to find authentic references from which I could able to trace the historical background of this Gurdwara but not much is available on internet. The Sikhiwiki website has lists of all Gurdwara’s constructed in Lahore.  According to Sikhiwikhi there were 36 Gurdwara’s present in Lahore before 1947 partition, however, interestingly the name of this Gurdwara’s is missing in that list.

Recently, I visited the site of this Gurdwara construction; and found that the architecture of this Gurdwara is quite modern, kiln bricks were used in column beams construction. In roof wooden girders were placed to support brick reinforced slab. We are not allowed to visit or photographed the abounded Gurdwara building from inside as migrant families are living in it. They have already changed the architecture according to modern requirement of living, Lime plaster removed with cement. Arched windows fallen with time.