Arjan, the Sikh religion’s fifth Guru and its first martyr. He completed the Harimandir, the Golden Temple, at Amritsar, where all Sikhs could worship as they pleased. Ordered by the Mughal emperor Jahangir to remove supposedly offensive sections of the
Hargobind, sixth Sikh Guru (1606–44), who developed a strong Sikh army and gave the Sikh religion its military character, in accord with the instructions of his father, Guru Arjan, the first Sikh martyr, who had been executed on the order of the Mughal
The first Harmandir Sahib was built in 1604 byArjan, the fifth SikhGuru, who symbolically had it placed on a lower level so that even the humblest had to step down to enter. He also included entrances on all four sides, signifying that it was open to worshippers of allcastesand creeds....