Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib)Laid out in the order pilgrims move through it.

1. The entrance — joda ghar, head cover, water channelFootwear is left at the joda ghar and the head is covered before you go in; head coverings are available at the entrance. You walk through a shallow channel that washes the feet, then down steps — the shrine sits below street level, and you descend to it.the clock-tower gate, from the old city outside.
2. The parikrama around the Amrit SarovarThe marble walkway around the sacred pool that gives Amritsar its name. Walk it before joining the causeway queue.the walkway ringing the pool, immediately inside the gate.
3. Harmandir SahibThe gilded central shrine, reached along the causeway. Its four doors face the four directions as a sign that it is open to everyone. Inside, the Guru Granth Sahib is read and Gurbani is sung.along the causeway from the parikrama.
4. Karah prasadTaken in cupped hands on the way out, and given to everyone alike regardless of who they are.at the causeway end.
5. Akal TakhtFacing the causeway, the seat of temporal authority in Sikhism and the second of the complex's great buildings.directly across from the Harmandir Sahib.
6. Guru-ka-LangarThe kitchen that feeds everyone who comes, seated in rows on the floor without distinction of caste, faith or means. Visitors may take a turn at the kneading, the serving or the washing-up.in the complex, past the far side of the sarovar.

1. The Palki SahibThe Guru Granth Sahib is carried in a palanquin between the Harmandir Sahib and the Akal Takht, and sangat take a turn at the poles as it passes. The hour shifts with the season and with festival days — check SGPC before you plan an evening around it.along the causeway; stand on the parikrama to watch.
2. Gurdwara Baba Atal SahibThe tall tiered tower gurdwara standing just beside the main complex.a short walk from the sarovar, outside the main wall.
3. Central Sikh MuseumInside the clock-tower entrance, holding paintings, arms and manuscripts of Sikh history.at the main gate of the complex.
4. Jallianwala BaghThe walled garden where the 1919 massacre took place. It adjoins the temple complex, and the narrow entry lane is still there.adjoining the complex, a walk from the main gate.
5. Partition MuseumIn the old town hall, on the story of 1947 as it fell on Punjab.in the old town, near the complex.

Not a puja — a service. Everyone sits on the floor in rows and eats the same food, and anyone may join the kneading, the cooking or the washing-up. It is the practical form of the Sikh teaching that nobody stands above anybody else.

Sewa with your own hands in the langar, a contribution of grain or funds to the kitchen, or the golak offering inside the shrine. Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), which manages the complex, its langar and its sarais. Give inside the complex, not through a third party.

Vaisakhi in April and Guru Nanak's Gurpurab in the late autumn draw the largest sangat of the year, and the complex is lit for Bandi Chhor Divas. SGPC publishes the dates.