There are many religious sites in Amritsar. A number of Gurudwaras and Temples are scattered all over the district. Gurudwaras are sacred places for Sikh community. All the Gurudwaras have a copy of the Sacred Book Guru Granth Sahib centrally placed inside. The Temples are Hindus place of worship. Idols of all Hindu Gods are exhibited in the Temple. You can spot a Gurudwaras and a Temple from a distance. Both have domes but of different style. The domes in the Gurudwaras are round whereas in Temples they have a conical shape. About Golden Temple offers you a list of some of the popular pilgrim places in Amritsar. This place noted for its most notorious massacre under British rule. It is 400 meters north of the Golden Temple. Today this ground has been changed to a park and it has a pleasant garden. At the entrance there is a memorial plaque which recounts the history. There is a well on the north side in which many people who tried to escape from the bullets we are drowned, and remnants of walls have been preserved to show the bullet holes. At the east end of the garden there is a large memorial built in memory of those who died.

Is a public garden in Amritsar in the Punjab state of India, and houses a memorial of national importance, established in 1951 to commemorate the massacre by British occupying forces of peaceful celebrators on the occasion of the Punjabi New Year on April 13, 1919 in the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre. Colonial British Raj sources placed the fatalities at 379, and with 1100 wounded. Civil Surgeon Dr. Smith indicated that there were 1,526 casualties. The true figures of fatalities are unknown, but are likely to be many times higher than the official figure of 379.

Wagah is a village on the Grand Trunk Road involving Amritsar, India and Lahore, Pakistan, from beginning to end which the border of the two countries passes. This is the only chosen place to cross the land road connecting India and Pakistan. The place is 32 km from Amritsar and 22 km from Lahore.

40 kms south of Dharamsala in Kangra valley are one of the only such type of Temple in the Himalayas. This 7th of 8th Century old monolithic temples have been cut out of one single sandstone rock and are decorated with sculpultural ornamentation and seem to have been built in the same manner as the great temples of Kailash at Ellora in Maharashatra.

The main Buddhist temple (also called (Tsuglakhang in Tibetan) in McLeod Ganj, situated opposite the residency of H.H. Dalai Lama is open to the visitors from Sunrise to sunset each day. The temple has three main images of Lord Buddha or Sakyamuni, Padmasambhava and Avlokiteshvara. The images of Padmasambhava, Tibet?s great tantrik teacher and Avlokiteshvara, the Buddha of compassion are facing towards Tibet. Besides these images several volumes of religious Buddhist texts wrapped in yellow cloth are kept in glass paned cupboard on both sides of Buddha image. The temple is visited of hundreds of devotees every day. You can see the the Tibetan devotees during prayer in the temple every day in the morning and later afternoon. From time to time H.H. Dalai Lama gives public appearance in the temple his followers from all over the world and also gives preaching?s at the same temple.

The Tibet Museum is the official museum of the Central Tibetan Administration's Department of Information and International Relations and is located near the main temple of the 14th Dalai Lama, Tsuglag Khang, in the Dharamshala suburb of McLeod Ganj. The Tibet Museum aims to disseminate knowledge of Tibetan history and culture while raising awareness of the occupation of Tibet and the ongoing human rights abuses committed by China. Established in 1998, the Tibet Museum now has a collection comprising over 30,000 photographs, a traveling exhibition, and a permanent exhibition that documents the Tibetan journey into exile across the Himalayan ranges.

The Kalachakra temple is located inside the Thekchen Ch?ling temple complex in Mcleodganj in the hill state of Himachal Pradesh in India. The temple complex also houses the Namgyal monastery, the private chambers of his Holiness the Dalai Lama and the famous Tsuglakhang temple. Opened in the year 1992, the Kalachakra temple is a symbol of the concept in Buddhist religion known popularly as ?The wheel of time?.

The Kangra Fort was built by the royal Rajput family of Kangra State (the Katoch dynasty), which traces its origins to the ancient Trigarta Kingdom, mentioned in the Mahabharata epic. It is the largest fort in the Himalayas and probably the oldest dated fort in India. At least three rulers sought to conquer the fort and plundered the treasures of its temples: Mahmud Ghazni in 1009, Firuz Shah Tughluq in 1360 and Sher Shah in 1540. The fort of Kangra resisted Akbar's siege. Akbar's son Jahangir successfully subdued the fort in 1620.Kangra was at the time ruled by Raja Hari Chand Katoch of Kangra (also known as Raja Hari Chand II) Mughal Emperor Jahangir with the help of Suraj Mal garrisoned with his troops.

Is dedicated to handing down tradition and restoring standards by providing training, education and employment for Tibetans. It supports an environment in which Tibetan community and family values can flourish. It reconciles the traditional creatively and respectfully with the modern, and seeks to create an international awareness of Tibetan values and their expression in art and literature. The institute houses gardens, museum, temple, arts & crafts, sculptures & galleries.

Enjoy a short walk in the tea garden and visit the tea factory to see the manufacturing unit and learn about the manufacturing process if the same is going on.