This Book is the pioneer study of Sikh shrines known as Gurdwaras, built upto the end of 19th century in the modern Punjab. The study is based on an extensive field work of the entire modern Punjab. All the Sikh shrines extant or now lost have been documented at one place in order of their architectural typology and not from the chronological order. This is for the first time that a full length comprehensive study of Sikh shrines has been under-taken to establish its distinctive and independent existence, as a school of architecture. The endeavor becomes even more meaningful and urgent in the face of every day dismantling of the old models and substituting them with the new ones.