Places To See Ambala City

There is not much to see in Ambala city except for lots of shrines. Still, some of the important places of interest in Haryana are:

The Badshahi Bag Gurudwara, Sis Ganj Gurudwara and Manji Sahib Gurudwara are the three historical gurudwaras here. These are associated with Guru govind Singh, Guru Tegh Bahadur and Guru Hargovind respectively. Besides there are the popular Muslim shrines of Lakhi Shah (associated with Tej-ud-Din Chisti) and Taqwal Shah. and of course there’s the Bhawani Amba Temple, Saint Paul’s Church and a Christian cemetery for dead Britishers.

In the north of the city is the Paget Park, a pleasant open space, with the shell of the St John’s Cathedral, designed in the 14th century Gothic style. The building was bombed in the 1965 India-Pakistan war. (Well, talking about monuments, Ambala has been really unlucky. The famous Gupta iron pillar which now stands tall at the Qutub Minar in Delhi originally belonged to Ambala; it was lifted from here by the Muslim rulers to its present position). But the Rang Mahal at Buria nearby is a handsome palace with stone arches and pillars with beautiful carvings, erected during Shah Jahan’s reign. The place has the biggest natural lakes and one spend his leisure time kiosk angling or boating.

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