Guru Nanak Dev
Founding Figure
1469 – 1539
Who was Guru Nanak Dev?
Guru Nanak is the founder of the religion of Sikhism and is the first of the Sikh Gurus. His birth is celebrated world-wide on Kartik Puranmashi, the full-moon day which falls on different dates each year in the month of Katak, October–November.
Guru Nanak travelled far and wide teaching people the message of one God who dwells in every one of God's creations and constitutes the eternal Truth. He setup a unique spiritual, social, and political platform based on equality, fraternity love, goodness, and virtue.
It is part of Sikh religious belief that the spirit of Guru Nanak's sanctity, divinity and religious authority descended upon each of the nine subsequent Gurus when the Guruship was devolved on to them.
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- Born
- Apr 15, 1469
Nankana Sahib - Also known as
- Nānak Guru
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Mata Sulakhni
(1487/09/24 - 1539/09/22)
- Mata Sulakhni
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Punjabi people
- Indian people
- Pakistani people
- Nationality
- India
- Profession
- Died
- Sep 22, 1539
Kartarpur, Pakistan
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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