City Blog- Amritsar

3 min readAug 22, 2022

Amritsar historically known as Ramdaspur and natively called Ambarsar, is the second largest megacity of Punjab, after The megacity is located 217 km northwest of state capital Chandigarh, 455 km northwest of New Delhi, the public capital, and 47 km northeast of Lahore( Pakistan) with the Indo- Pak Border( Wagah/ Attari) being only 28 km down. It’s a major artistic, transportation, and profitable region of the Majha region of Punjab. Amritsar has been chosen as one of the heritage metropolises for the HRIDAY scheme of the Indian Government. Amritsar is home to Sri Harmandir Sahib popularly known as” the Golden Temple,” one of the Sikh religion’s most spiritually significant and most- visited Gurudwaras. The megacity is also known for Amritsari fish, its rustic chessboards, and chess pieces manufacturing assiduity. Amritsar has a hot semi-arid climate and temperatures can go from-1 to 45 degrees.

History Of Amritsar-

Practitioner Ramdas, the fourth Sikh practitioner is credited with launching the holy megacity of Amritsar in the Sikh tradition. Two types of stories live regarding the land where Ram Das settled. In one grounded on a Gazetteer record, the land was bought with Sikh donations, for 700 RS from the possessors of the vill of Tung. According to the literal Sikh records, the point was chosen by Guru Amar Das and called Guru Da Chakk, after he’d asked Ram Das to find land to start a new city with a man-made pool as its central point. After his coronation in 1574, and the hostile opposition he faced from the sons of Amar Das, Ram Das innovated the city named after him as” Ramdaspur”. He started by completing the pool and erecting his new sanctioned Guru center and homecoming to it. He invited merchandisers and crafters from other corridors of India to settle into the new city with him. The city expanded during the time of Arjan financed by donations and constructed by voluntary work. The city grew to come to the megacity of Amritsar, and the pool area grew into a tabernacle complex after his son erected the Gurudwara Harmandir Sahib, and installed the Book of Sikhism inside the new tabernacle in 1604.