Travel Guide to Golden Temple Amritsar

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The Golden Temple Amritsar

Architecture

The Golden Temple Amritsar

Art and Architecture

Golden Temple (Sri Darbar Sahib)

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Sikh Art | Gold Embossed Work in Golden Temple
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Sikh Art and Architecture

Darbar is not only a place for mental solace, it provides the rarest of art work to the visitors and art lovers visiting this shrine. The art displayed here is neither a copy of Islamic art or Hindu traditional art but a rare work of craftsmanship of fine art by Sikh Artists.

In Darbar Sahib one can find :

The Gold Embossed Work

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Gold Embossed Work

All the domes of Darbar, inner walls, the door panels exhibit gold work. Special designs have been given to the copper sheets and then they have been covered with gold leaves. This work is also on the inner roofs.

The Inlay Work

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Inlay Work in Golden Temple

The beautiful designs depicting, birds, animals, flowers have been engraved in marble and then studded with colorful semi precious stones, that come out to be a great art work. In the art work at Darbar one can find life everywhere in shape of human beings, birds, animals and flowers.