Gurdwara Sri Janam Asthaan Bebay Nanki
About Gurdwara Sri Janam Asthaan Bebay Nanki
Gurdwara Sri Janam Asthaan Babay Nanki is located in Dera Chahl, a village in outskirts of Lahore on Bedian Road. Now it is easily linked with Lahore Ring Road and no more outskirts and surrounded with most expensive DHA housing society of Lahore
Babay Nanaki ji was elder sister of Guru Nanak and the daughter of Kalian Chand (Baba Kalu) and Mata Tripta, was born in 1464 in her mother’s home at village of Chahal, now in Lahore district of Pakistan Punjab. It was a tradition and even now that first child was always born at the maternal home of mother (Nanka Home) and so was Nanka Home Dera Chahl. The Guru’s love for his sister is referred to in most touching terms in some of the Sakhis. A sister’s love for her brother is a perennial theme of Punjabi folklore. There are many stories of Nanaki’s deep and devoted affection for her brother, Nanak. Five years older than Guru Nanak, she was the first to recognize his spiritual eminence and to become his devotee. She protected Nanak from their father’s wrath, when repeatedly he disappointed and angered him.
Guru Nanak Dev Ji visited this village frequently because headored much his maternal grandparents who were from this village. It was herethat Bebe Nanaki , the elder sister of the Guru, was born in Samvat 1524. Thedomed building of the Gurdwara is beautifully built. A beautiful tank used tobe on the right of the sacred darbar which has vanished. There is a girl’sschool in this building
His father despaired of never being able to make him behave and take on a respectable position in the village. And so it was that his father gave up, and so, at the age of fifteen, Nanak was sent to live with his sister, and to work for her husband. It was Jai Ram who arranged the wedding of Nanak to Sulakhani, daughter of Moolchand Chand Khatri and Mata Chando of the village Pakhoke, District Gurdaspur. Herself Childless, Bebe Nanaki adored her brother, Nanak, and felt herself blessed when he came to join the Nawab’s service and put up with her at Sultanpur.The building of the gurdwara was in a very bad shape until 1996 when the then Prime Minister of Pakistan spent Rs. 0.5 million out of the public exchequer to get it repaired. Malik Meraj Khalid (Ex-Prime Minister) is also from this village. Parkash take place again in this Gurdwara.
