The word "Harmandir Sahib" is composed of two words: "Hari", which scholars translate as "God ", and "mandir", which means "house".
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11 Facts About Harmandir Sahib
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Harmandir Sahib started by completing the pool with the help of Baba Buddha.
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Harmandir Sahib invited merchants and artisans from other parts of India to settle in the new town with him.
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Harmandir Sahib wrote a voluminous amount of Sikh scripture including the popular Sukhmani Sahib.
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Harmandir Sahib demanded that the gurdwara compound be open on all sides to emphasize that it was open to all.
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Harmandir Sahib appointed Sardar Desa Singh Majithia to manage it and made land grants whose collected revenue was assigned to pay for the Temple's maintenance and operation.
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Harmandir Sahib's dispatches, filed by telex, provided the first non-governmental news reports on the bloody operation in Amritsar.
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Harmandir Sahib reportedly jumped over a railing and picked up the sword laying before the temple's copy of the Guru Granth Sahib, before attempting to touch the Guru Granth Sahib itself.
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Harmandir Sahib was overpowered by the sangat and received fatal injuries to the head.
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The Sikh Scripture Guru Granth Harmandir Sahib is seated on the lower square floor for about 20 hours every day, and for 4 hours it is taken to its bedroom inside Akal Takht with elaborate ceremonies in a palki, for sukhasana and Prakash.
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Harmandir Sahib complex has a Langar, a community-run free kitchen and dining hall.
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