Free kitchen in India run at the Sikhs' holiest shrine produces 200,000 flat breads and 1.5 tonnes of lentil soup daily.


Two hundred thousand rotis (Indian flat bread), 1.5 tonnes of dal (lentil soup) and free food served to 100,000 people everyday are what makes the free kitchen run at the Golden Temple in the western Indian city of Amritsar stand apart.

By all measures, the kitchen (called langar in Punjabi ) is one of the largest free kitchens to be run anywhere in the world.

The concept of langars was initiated centuries ago by Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikh religion.

Sunday, November 17, is his 545th birth anniversary.

At the Langar, no one goes hungry - and everybody gets a hot meal regardless of caste, creed and religion.

All Sikh Gurudwaras (places of worship) have langars, but the one at Golden Temple - Sikhs' holiest shrine - has little parallel.

“Anyone can eat for free here and on an average we serve food to 100,000 people. On weekends and special occasions double the numbers of people visit the langar. The langar never stops and on an average 7,000 kg of wheat flour, 1,200 kg of rice, 1,300 kg of lentils, 500 kg of ghee (clarified butter) is used in preparing the meal every day,” says Harpreet Singh, manager of this huge kitchen.

“The free kitchen uses firewood, LPG gas and electronic bread makers for the cooking and we use around 100 LPG cylinders and 5,000 kilograms of firewood every day,” he adds.

The kitchen is run by 450 staff, helped by hundreds of other volunteers.

Sanjay Arora, 46, from New Delhi, comes to volunteer at the langar two days a month. “This is seva (service) for me. I feel happy after doing this service. This is not just free food because here you forget all the differences that separate humans from each other,” he says.

Volunteers also wash the 300,000 plates, spoons and bowls used in feeding the people. The food is vegetarian and the expenses are managed through donations from all over the world.

The yearly budget of the langar runs into hundreds of millions.

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Wow, so impressed and somewhere in this part of the world, our political leaders and religions leaders keep deceiving us.

Who is fooling who?

mankand: Wow, so impressed and somewhere in this part of the world, our political leaders and religious leaders keep deceiving us.

Who is fooling who?

Just painful.

Interesting...

hammedkola: Interesting...

I love the concept.

Nobility at it's best.

Now this restores my faith in human nature.

Nothing gets more reward than this.......
Enough of the religious lies in our part of the world, This is What ReliGion Should Entail!

Clothing the Naked,
Feeding the homeless.......... And lots more!

Not suffering for righteousness sake with possesion of 5 different private jets in hanger. #Punintended

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Olucheye: Nothing gets more reward than this.......
Enough of the religious lies in our part of the world, This is What ReliGion Should Entail!

Clothing the Naked,
Feeding the homeless.......... And lots more!

Not suffering for righteousness sake with possesion of 5 different private jets in hanger. #Punintended

You are right my brother.

The nigerians over there had better be careful.


Anyway, nigeria also has those.

Wow..talk about service to humanity..cool stuff

Humanity at its best,purpose of true religion. Where people's welfare should be catered for,and not profiteering on people's desire to worship God.

speechless!

omniwater007: speechless!

There is hope for the world.

Let us go there....

Only if the 1billion naira food Jonathan and his wife budgeted for themselves can be use for this kind of gesture,it can go a long way in feeding the poor and homeless people of Nigeria.

Efemena_xy: Nobility at it's best.

Now this restores my faith in human nature.

mee too. This goes beyond religion or tribe, this is a perfect definition of service to humanity.

specialguest:
mee too. This goes beyond religion or tribe, this is a perfect definition of service to humanity.

Please Mod(s) do the needful, someone out there may use this idea and bring up something in our country.

Glad there are pple like these left in the world