Gurudwara Bari Sangat Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji Chauki

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Gurudwara Bari Sangat Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji Chauki Sahib - Bhagalpur, another district town on the right bank of the Ganges, 63 kilometres east of Monghyr by rail, which had two Sikh Sangats when Guru Tegh Bahadur visited it in 1667. Guru Tegh Bahadur is said to have stayed at Bari Sangat on Burhanath Ghat of which only a single stone slab, still considered holy, is left.

Over it Sardar Inder Singh Atwal got a room built in 1974. On every amavas, Guru Granth Sahib is brought from Grudwara Singh Sabha in the interior of the town and a congregation is held here with the holy book placed on the old slab called 'Chauki sahib'. The place itself is named Gurdwara Bari Sangat Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji Chauki Sahib. An old hand-written copy of Guru Granth Sahib, acquired from the former Udasi priest of the shrine. is preserved in Gurdwara Singh Sabha. The other place, Chhoti Sangat, also on the Ghat a little distance away from Bari Sangat has since been converted into a Hindu temple.