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SIS GANJ GURUDWARA
It is believed that the night Guru
Tegh Bahadur was murdered along with three of his
 disciples
it was raining very heavily. Because of the fear of the Mughals
nobody came to pick the bodies up that night. The next day the
head of the Guru was taken to Anandpur Sahib and the body to
where Gurdwara Rakab Ganj is now situated. A century later a
devotee named Baba Baghel Singh searched and found this place
and had this place of worship constructed here.
Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib embraced martyrdom in Delhi on November
11th, 1675. Bhai Jaita and his associates brought his head to
Chakk Nanaki. The cremation of the head of Guru Sahib was held
here on November 17th, 1675. The trunk of that tree under which
the Guru was martyred and the well where he took his daily bath
while in prison are preserved here to this day.
KALKAJI KALI TEMPLE
3 km to the south of
Humayun tomb and west of Mathura Rd, the Rock Edict of King
Ashoka was discovered in 1963. At a little distance, there is
18th century Kalkaji Kali Temple.
JANTAR MANTAR
The fabled
Connaught Place area created and envisioned by the legendary
architect, Lutyens, boasts of an observatory of yore in the form
of Jantar Mantar.According to the rays of the Sun falling on it,
it helped the people calculate to some extent the time of the
day. Jantra(yantra-meaning instrument) and
 mantra-formula)
was built in 1724 by Maharaja Jai Singh of Jaipur, who later
built observatories on the same lines in Jaipur, Ujjain,
Varanasi and Mathura. According to historical records, the
Maharaja found the then existing astronomical instruments to
record totally accurate observations and so he decided that such
bigger structures should be constructed. The instruments at
Jantar mantar are fascinating for their novel approach, though
as opf today, they cannot be relied upon to give the kind of
accuracy that they gave then because of the growth of
multistoreyed structures around it which block the avenues of
measurement. At one time the lawns in the area were used as a
spot for protestors who found it convenient to reach Parliament
House from there. But recently a host of them were removed from
there and the area restored to its pristine glory.
ISHCKON
TEMPLE
 It
stands at Hari Krishna Hill, Sant Nagar Main Road, East of
Kailash.The magnificent temple has sikharas at a height of 90
feet above the ground level. The hall of the temple is centrally
air-cooled with a capacity to accommodate about 1,500 people.
There are beautiful paintings of Russian artists on the
different past times of Radha Krishna, Sita, Ram, Laxman,
hanuman and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. The temple remains open from
4.30 a.m. to 12 p.m. and then in the evening from 4 p.m. to 9
p.m. Special programmes like kirtan, aarti, pravachan and
prasadam, are held every Sunday between 12 nooon to 3 p.m.
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