Gurdwara Pehli Patshahi, Bhail Gram

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Gurdwara Pehli Patshahi was once a beautiful Gurdwara of Jagat Guru Nanak Dev Ji in the village of Bhail. Bhail is located next to the village of Rossay. Both villages are located on Manga-Kasur road about 4 kilometers off the metalled road. Kasur city, is in Pakistan very near the India border.

Jagat Guru stayed in the village for some time while going to Ram Thaman from Manga. Only one arched door of the Gurdwara has survived; the Prakashasthan has vanished. Though the once beautiful gate or doorway still is an architectural treasure which still displays the engineering of the complicated brickwork.

Refugees are currently settled in the residential quarters of the gurdwara.


Kasur, the city of Bulleh Shah and the capital of Kasur District, is located 55 km southeast of Lahore, and is one of the oldest cities in Pakistan.

Border Crossing at Wagah

This city is the birth city of the Sufi poet Bulleh Shah, well known in that region as well as in the whole of Pakistan. Kasur is adjacent to the border crossing at Wagah between Pakistan and India. It is a major tourist attraction because of the famous guard changing ceremony.


There are different traditions about the name of Kasur. One is that the town was founded by Kasur/ Kasu the son of King Ram and named after him as Kasurpur. One of Kasu's brothers was named Loh and the City of Lahore was named after him.


Map showing Kasur, Lahore, Manga, Amritsar, etc towns on either side of the India and Pakistan border. (map courtesy of Google)