Gurdwara Nima Serai Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur

Gurdwara Nima Serai Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur was the name of the Gurdwara which was built to commemorate a vist to the site in old Malda town, by both Guru Nanak Dev and Guru Tegh Bahadur.

The Gurdwara on Power House Lane in the Sarbari section of old Malda, was abandoned when a newer section of the city was built across the river leading to a decline in the population in the older part of the city. In the city’s newer section a new Gurdwara, Gurdwara Singh Sabha was built.

Years later all that was left of the old Gurdwara was two masonary platforms and an old well. In the the 1960s, when it was noticed that that the site of the former Gurdwara continued to be listed in the revenue records as a Gurdwara property, a Sikh road-building contractor built a wall around the compound. Subsequently, other Sikhs, mostly road transporters, who had constructed Gurdwara Singh Sabha in New Malda, took up the restoration of the abandoned historical shrine.

Today a new Gurdwara stands on the site. The Gurdwara has been named Sri Prayag Sahib, Sarbari, Old Malda.

Malwa, a West Bengal district town, straddles the Mahanandi River, near its conjunction with the Kalindari river. The city is known for its mangoes, which are of a superlative quality.