Gurdwara Mata Jit Kaur, Anandpur

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Gurdwara Mata jito ji in the City of Anandpur Sahib of Ropar Distt., is situated on Anandpur Sahib Garshankar road. Guru Gobind's Singh ji's wife Mata Jit Kaur died at Anandpur Sahib on December 5,1700. She was cremated in the outskirts of Chakk-Nanaki in the boundary of the village of Agamgarh. Some one constructed a platform at the site where she had been cremated. Later, a Gurdwara Sahib was built within a half-acre enclosure just outside Agampura village.

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The present three-storeyed domed building was completed in 1972. The 4-metre square sanctum marked off by four pillars is in the middle of the square hall on the ground floor. The fluted lotus dome on top of the building has a gold-plated pinnacle and a gilded khanda as a finial.