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.
