After the separation of Pakistan and India many Hindus remained settled in Pakistan. No doubt some of them migrated to India and other countries but still there is minority available in Pakistan. Sindh is full of the religious places particularly the area of Sukkur and Rohri city no matter what religious it is, either Islam or Hinduism. Talking particularly about the temples and Hinduism a temple is very famous and old in the name of Sadhu Island or sadh Belo. In Urdu it is called Sadhu Bella. It is establishment in 1823 by Swami Brakhandi Maharaja. It is located in Sukkur on Indus River.
Thousands of the Hindus from and outside of Pakistan come to Sadh Belo for their prayers and wishes specially they come for the celebration of the anniversary of Swami Brakhandi Maharaja. The celebration duration is three days starting from Sunday with the Hawan (Agni Pooja) a type of worship based on fire and recitation of Guru Granth and Geeta. When baba Brakhandi Maharaja came in Sadh Belo he was just 15 years old and he lived till his death at the age of 60 years.
It has very attractive architecture; the walls of the temple are decorated with marble carving on which their gods sculptures are portrait in a very beautiful way, the temple have lawns as well and so many different symbolic things are placed there which according to their religion used by their gods. The temple covers a huge area and its structure is less modern and more attractive. There are different god’s sculptures available there and Hindus perform different types of prayers on different occasions. Other than that there are 48 rooms available there to facilitate visitors and a library is also situated where thousands of books are available about different subjects and topics regarding Hinduism mostly about the Agni Pooja, Ganesh Pooja, etc. The security system is very tight there no body can enter or visit the temple without having permission there is a proper way to get permission from Hindu punchait who will allow you or not to visit the temple mostly getting permission for non-Hindus is difficult due to the security system because Sadh Belo is the biggest temple in Pakistan.
Sadh Belo is not a single temple but it consist of more than 9 temples of different gods and Hindu people prefer to pray in Sadh Belo and even they through the Asthiyan of dead body there because its their belief that if they do so they will be Sawab from there gods.
Recently the Sadh Belo was given a package by government to construct more rooms and facilities by seeing the increasing numbers of the visitors and to build a wall to secure Sadh Belo from flood. After that the numbers of rooms were increased to 76 and 5 big halls were constructed, other than that Hindu minorities are also serving the temple and taking care of it in a well manner and with their efforts Sadh Belo became famous in all over the world.
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Thousands of the Hindus from and outside of Pakistan come to Sadh Belo for their prayers and wishes specially they come for the celebration of the anniversary of Swami Brakhandi Maharaja. The celebration duration is three days starting from Sunday with the Hawan (Agni Pooja) a type of worship based on fire and recitation of Guru Granth and Geeta. When baba Brakhandi Maharaja came in Sadh Belo he was just 15 years old and he lived till his death at the age of 60 years.
It has very attractive architecture; the walls of the temple are decorated with marble carving on which their gods sculptures are portrait in a very beautiful way, the temple have lawns as well and so many different symbolic things are placed there which according to their religion used by their gods. The temple covers a huge area and its structure is less modern and more attractive. There are different god’s sculptures available there and Hindus perform different types of prayers on different occasions. Other than that there are 48 rooms available there to facilitate visitors and a library is also situated where thousands of books are available about different subjects and topics regarding Hinduism mostly about the Agni Pooja, Ganesh Pooja, etc. The security system is very tight there no body can enter or visit the temple without having permission there is a proper way to get permission from Hindu punchait who will allow you or not to visit the temple mostly getting permission for non-Hindus is difficult due to the security system because Sadh Belo is the biggest temple in Pakistan.
Sadh Belo is not a single temple but it consist of more than 9 temples of different gods and Hindu people prefer to pray in Sadh Belo and even they through the Asthiyan of dead body there because its their belief that if they do so they will be Sawab from there gods.
Recently the Sadh Belo was given a package by government to construct more rooms and facilities by seeing the increasing numbers of the visitors and to build a wall to secure Sadh Belo from flood. After that the numbers of rooms were increased to 76 and 5 big halls were constructed, other than that Hindu minorities are also serving the temple and taking care of it in a well manner and with their efforts Sadh Belo became famous in all over the world.
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