Gurdwara Sri Manji Sahib Alamgir in Ludhiana District's Alamgir village reflects yet another landmark in the life of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji.

Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji was pursued by the mughal army and it was at the site where this Gurdwara now stands, where Guru Gobind Singh stopped to rest for 3 days, blessing it with his presence.

Following the siege of Anandpur Sahib, Guru Gobind Singh, after evading the mughal and rajput attackers at Chamkaur, came to Machhiwara.

It was then that two Pathan brothers, Ghani Khan and Nabi Khan, even at the prospect of facing certain death, helped Guru Gobind Singh to escape from the pursuing mughal army.

At Machhiwara Guru Gobind Singh donned the blue robes of a Sufi pretending to be the Pir of Uch. Guru Gobind Singh loosened his hair and, accompanied by the Pathan brothers and three Sikhs, was carried in a palanquin with a Sikh waving a chanwar over the Guru's head as they passed safely through enemy lines.

On reaching Alamgir Guru Gobind Singh asked an old lady who was moving cow dung whether he could get water from somewhere to take bath. The old lady replied, 'Pir Ji, this is a place of ruins, there is no water here. There is a well far away but there is a big python that lives there and no one goes there.'