Click Here to EnlargeOpposite the Lahore Fort is the samadh of Guru Arjan Dev, who lost his life while fighting near here in the waters of the Ravi River, which used to flow past the Fort walls those days. The shrine is said to have been established by Guru Hargobind, who appointed Bhai Langaha as its caretaker. Its present building was raised by Maharaja Ranjit Singh. The entrance gate with an ornamental flying marble arch opens on a marble-paved courtyard with the Nishan Sahib fixed on a marbled base to the right as one enters.
The samadh proper across the courtyard is a square sanctuary with a verandah
surrounding it and a fluted dome topped by a gilded pinnacle and Umbrella
shaped finial above it. Curved copings mounted with solid domelets run
along the top which forms the base of the central dome. A smaller decorated
with a line of domelets and a lantern on either end. The verandah front
has three openings with cusped arches supported on slender, paired pillars.
Other entrances, one on either side of the Central openings, have above
their arches semi-domes projecting from the wall surface.
Samadhi of Raja Ranjit Sigh is located outside Lahore fort and is visited by Sikh groups during their tour to Lahore.
Government of Pakistan permits organzied jathas of Indian pilgrims to visit this shrine and to celebrate the death anniversary of Guru Arjan Dev usually falling in June.