Pilgrimage to Hemkunt

Situated at the height of over 15,000 feet above sea level in the Himalayan ranges of northern India, Sri Hemkunt Sahib has emerged as a popular centre of Sikh Pilgrimage which is visited by thousands of devotees from all over the world every summer

. According to Bactra Nantak, the autobiographical account of the tenth Guru, Gobind Singh, it was at Hemkunt adorned with seven snow clad peaks that he meditated in his previous birth.

It was during the thirties of the twentieth century that the place was discovered by Sant Sohan Singh and Bhai Modan Singh.

In Spite of difficult terrain where Hemkunt is situated where Hemkunt is situated devotees from all over the world make it to this unique Sikh shrine every summer