Gurudwara Nanak Jhira Sahib
A major Sikh pilgrimage site built around a natural spring said to have been created by Guru Nanak during his visit to Bidar, one of the religion's most important shrines in south India.
Tradition holds that Guru Nanak visited Bidar during his travels and, finding the local population suffering from a shortage of clean water, struck a hillside with his staff to bring forth a spring — the jhira from which the gurudwara takes its name. The spring still feeds the sarovar within the complex and is considered sacred by pilgrims, who bathe in and carry away its water.
The gurudwara has grown over the centuries into one of the principal Sikh pilgrimage sites in peninsular India, drawing devotees from across the south for its association with the faith’s founder in a region far from Sikhism’s Punjab heartland. Its presence in Bidar also reflects the historic reach of Guru Nanak’s udasis, the long missionary journeys he undertook across the subcontinent and beyond.
Getting there: The gurudwara lies on the northern outskirts of Bidar town, a short distance from the Bidar Post Office.
The site itself
Where to get your stamp cancelled
This may not be next to the site itself — some post offices serve several nearby landmarks.
- Post office
- Bidar Post Office
- Pincode
- 585401
- Address
- Bidar Post Office, Nanak Nagar, Bidar District, Karnataka
Sources
- Project maintainer transcription of the physical Philately Passport booklet (district/landmark/post office list)