Whosoever checks the famous spots for visiting Mccluskiegunj, shall find Sarwa Dharma Sthal as a search result.
But rarely is anyone aware about the story behind the place. In poems and stories we find sentences like" Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Isai....Sb aapas mai bhai bhai". Now, you may think that the place suggested by Google says SarvaDharma Sthal and when you visit the spot, you find two tower like structures standing one representing Hindu religion and another representing Islam religion. In short, only the temple and mosque is found. The foundation for the construction of church and gurudwara still lies today, unbuilt! Read more, to find the story behind it...
One day, I asked one of the a learned old man about the story behind SarvaDharma Sthal. I wish to share the same history with you. Decades ago, there was a person named Suresh Baraick. Suresh hailed from Punjab, but he stayed at Mccluskiegunj. He belonged to a well to do family. One fine day, he decided to construct a temple, a mosque, a church and a gurudwara near to each other, in order to promote the spirit of brotherhood and love among all the religions. He possessed the skills of constructing such structures. Suresh used to stay with his small family which includes his beautiful wife and two cute daughters.
Suresh had a friend who also hailed from Punjab. In those days, lot many people from Punjab had settled in the outskirts of Mccluskiegunj. Lately, Suresh had an intuition that his wife and his friend are into an undesirable relationship and he on the basis of his assumption, considered his daughters as the children of his wife and his friend.
Till then, the temple and mosque was constructed, foundation for gurudwara was in progress and soil excavation was in progress for construction of church. One evening, he had a heated argument on his suspicious feeling with his wife, which followed by killing his wife and daughters. He was arrested by the police on the grounds of murdering his family, however, he was set free within few days since no evidence was found to prove his misdeed.
After being set free, he left for Nepal with his car and on the Indo-Nepal border, he was arrested again, evidences to prove his misdeed were found then and eventually, he received death sentence from the court of justice. And hence, the construction of Gurudwara and Church remains undone.
Whenever you plan to visit Mccluskiegunj, you shall visit SarvaDharma Sthal, it is open for all. When you visit the temple you can see a beautiful idol of God Krishna and there are huge number of people who come to the mosques in pursuit of receiving blessings from the deity.
Beside the temple and mosque, there is a beautiful waterfall. Locals exclaim that the water in the Waterfall never gets dried up during extreme summer also. Some people consider it as a miracle, (superstition belief). I consider it to be a hydro-geological condition. This place has turned out to be a beautiful spot for a one day outing.
Visit this place and share what you feel about it.
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