The Baba Nihal Singh Shaheed Gurudwara in Talhan is like no other place in India. Lakhs of devotees visited the shrine, which standing near Jalandhar, almost 140 km away from Chandigarh, with only one awesome prayer on their lips — Waheguru ji, please support me go abroad.
Along with the prayers before the Guru Granth Sahib, devotees making a unique offering — they each leaving a toy plastic airplane within the gurudwara precincts. At the end of every day, lakhs of these toy planes, collect by the gurudwara, are gave away as ‘prasad’ to the young kids who accompany their family to the shrine.
The Talhan gurudwara summarized the desperation of Punjabis unapologetic to go abroad — be it jobless rural youth look for options beyond agriculture, young students need to utilize education as a stepping stone to a good future, NRIs’ wives waiting to be called by their hubby, or elder parents awaiting their tourists visa to the nations their kids are settled in.
Talhan lies in Punjab’s Doaba zone, also signify the NRI belt of the state. Almost every city in this region is teemed with coach centres for spoken English, institutes that support students prepared for the education consultants or English language test IELTS, promised assuring admission in foreign universities. The whole procedure, including visa applications and admissions, could cost some lakh rupees.
Jalandhar resident Gurpreet Singh, 22, is visiting the gurudwara with his mom and older brother, and justify the desperation to go abroad by saying: Where were the jobs in Punjab, or for that matter, anywhere in this nation now? There is unemployment, and jobs were only a handful.
Here, we talk about Shaheed Nihal Singh, which came into the center of attraction as the Aeroplane Gurudwara or good to say Hawai Jahaz Gurudwara. Now, this space has become so famous that devotees and believers comes up here from all across India to offering toy aeroplanes as a prayer offering.
Inndividuals often visit here to make the dreams of living abroad coming true. However, no one has any sought of clue how this all started in the initial place. As per to locals, there is a group of young boys who wants student visa, offered toy aeroplanes and prayed here; it later became a culture.
You’ll be surpriced to understand that the Gurudwara getting more than 200 toy aeroplanes as offer on weekends. These toys are later distributed among small kids visit the gurudwara.
As per few reports, there are more than 700,000 NRIs living in closeby cities such as Phagwara, Jalandhar, and Hoshiarpur. It is faith that humans who wished with all their heart for visas, getting their keen desire fulfilled.
Hawai Jahaz Gurudwara was built up some 150 years ago by Harnam Singh, who was the disciple of Baba Nihal Singh Ji. The gurudwara also house the samadhi of Nihal Singh Baba.
Numerous devotees who visited the place in hopes to travel abroad offering toy planes here.
In fact, the belief has progress to such an extent that there is a bigger model aircraft placed on the Gurudwara top. Without some surprise, the holy place is famously signify as ‘Hawaijahaj’ (aeroplane) gurdwara among tourists. Numerous devotees who visited the place in hopes to travelling abroad serve toy planes here.
Multiple Internet users sharing their accounts when they visit the place. At Shaheed Baba Gurudwara which was nearby Jalandhar, in a village is flooded with toys plane by tourists who felt that this probably supporting them obtaining a visa .
Another someone sharing a image of toy planes being benefaction at the Gurudwara and wrote, On my pathway to Jalandhar this timeline, I was stopped by Shaheed Singh Gurudwara — aka airplane or good to say“hawaijahaj” gurdwara — in Talhan, #Punjab. Devotees seek a visa to goes abroad served prayers and a toy airplane.
