Thursday, November 24, 2022

The Haran Minar And The Golden Temple

I noticed this just looking around the world on Google Earth, and cannot see it referred to anywhere.

Around the beginning of the Seventeenth Century what is now called the Golden Temple was completed in the Indian city of Amritsar. This is the best-known temple of the Sikh religion. There is the causeway across the pool of water to the Temple.

Images from Google Earth and Street View.



Not long after the Golden Temple was completed the Mughal Emperor Jahangir built a tomb for his pet antelope in exactly the same style. Although it is not as elaborate as the Golden Temple it's pool is larger. The pool is shown from the same altitude as that of the Golden Temple.


I believe that this adjoining tower is the site of the actual tomb of the antelope.
 

The Haran Minar is outside the Pakistani city of Sheikhupura. I measure it as being 88 km from the Golden Temple.

This tomb shows appreciation for animals and nature. Recent news is that the population of the world is now 8 billion people. Other recent news is that, considering all animal species, there is only about a third as many animals alive in the world as there was in 1970. This is terrible.

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