Jallianwala Bagh
Jallianwala Bagh is a historic garden and memorial of national importance close to the Golden Temple complex in Amritsar, Punjab, India, preserved in the memory of those wounded and killed in the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre that took place on the site on the festival of Baisakhi Day, 13 April 1919.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Golden Temple and Akal Takht.
Golden Temple
Gurdwara
Photo: Balpreet26, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Golden Temple is a gurdwara located in Amritsar, Punjab, India. It is the pre-eminent spiritual site of Sikhism and is one of its holiest sites, alongside the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur and the Gurdwara Janam Asthan in Nankana Sahib, both in Punjab, Pakistan. Golden Temple is situated 380 metres west of Jallianwala Bagh.
Akal Takht
Gurdwara
Photo: Amarpreet.singh.in, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Akal Takht, also spelt as Akal Takhat and historically known as Akal Bunga, is the most prominent of the five takhts of the Sikhs. Located within the Darbar Sahib complex in Amritsar, Punjab, India, it was established by Guru Hargobind in 1606 as a place to uphold justice and address temporal matters. Akal Takht is situated 490 metres west of Jallianwala Bagh.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Amritsar.
Amritsar
Photo: Birka, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Amritsar is a city in the state of Punjab, India. It is the holiest city in Sikhism. Amritsar is one of the largest cities in the Indian state of Punjab and is the spiritual and cultural centre of the Sikh religion.
Jallianwala Bagh
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: Historic site in India
- Categories: historic site, memorial, and tourism
- Location: Amritsar I, Amritsar, Punjab, Plains, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
31.62021° or 31° 37′ 13″ northLongitude
74.88051° or 74° 52′ 50″ eastElevation
235 metres (771 feet)Open location code
8J3PJVCJ+36OpenStreetMap ID
way 1232135995OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
7626593Wikidata ID
Q10904104
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Jallianwala Bagh” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جاليانوالا باغ”
- Bengali: “জালিয়ানওয়ালাবাগ”
- Chinese: “札连瓦拉园”
- German: “Jallianwala Bagh”
- Greek: “Τζαλιανβάλα Μπαγκ”
- Gujarati: “જલિયાવાલા બાગ”
- Hindi: “jalianwala bagh”
- Hindi: “जलियांवाला बाग कांड”
- Hindi: “जलियाँवाला बाग”
- Hindi: “जलियाँवाला बाग़”
- Hindi: “जलियांवाला बाग”
- Hindi: “जालियांवाला बाग”
- Japanese: “ジャリアンワラ・バーグ”
- Kannada: “jallianwala bagh information with images”
- Kannada: “ಜಲಿಯನ್ ವಾಲಾ ಬಾಗ್”
- Malayalam: “ജലിയാൻവാലാ ബാഗ്”
- Malayalam: “ജാലിയൻവാല ബാഗ്”
- Marathi: “जलियांवाला बाग”
- Marathi: “जालियनवाला बाग”
- Marathi: “जालियानवाला बाग”
- Panjabi: “ਜੱਲਿਆਂ ਵਾਲਾ ਬਾਗ”
- Panjabi: “ਜਲ੍ਹਿਆਂਵਾਲਾ ਬਾਗ”
- Sanskrit: “जलियावाला बाग”
- Santali: “ᱡᱟ.ᱞᱞᱤᱭᱟ-ᱣᱟᱞᱟ ᱵᱟᱜᱦᱽ”
- Santali: “ᱡᱟᱞᱞᱤᱭᱟᱱ-ᱣᱟᱞᱟ ᱵᱟᱜᱽ”
- Tamil: “ஜலியான்வாலா பாக்”
- Tamil: “ஜாலியன்வாலா பாக்”
- Telugu: “జలియన్ వాలాబాగ్”
- Thai: “จลิยานวาลาบาค”
- Urdu: “جلیانوالہ باغ”
- Urdu: “جلیاں والہ باغ”
- Vietnamese: “Jallianwala Bagh”
- Welsh: “Jallianwala Bagh”
- Western Panjabi: “جلیاں والا باغ”
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