Gurdwara Rakab Ganj Sahib is an important historical Gurdwara located near Parliament House in New Delhi. The ninth Guru, Guru Tegh Bahadur was beheaded in Chandani Chowk where today Gurdwara Sis Ganj Sahib stands. It is believed that after the beheading of the Guru who refused to convert to Islam, there was a storm. In the midst of the storm, a devotee named Lakhi Shah, a government contractor, swiftly removed the lower part of the body from the site without the Mughal guards noticing it and put the body on his cart under bales of cotton. The contractor took the body of the Guru to his house in Raisina and set the house on fire. Bhai Lakhi Shah’ house where the body was cremated by his family, has been transformed into a beautiful historical monument where today Rakab Ganj Sahib stands.
Similarly, another man named Bhai Jaita picked up the severed head of the Guru and took it to Anandpur, where his son Guru Gobind Singh cremated it near the place where the Guru used to meditate in a cell.
