About Golden Temple langar: World’s largest free kitchen feeds over 50,000 people everyday here!

They say there’s no deed bigger than feeding the hungry and Golden Temple in Amritsar has been doing this non stop for ages now! Yes, the Golden Temple has the world’s largest free kitchen or community kitchen also known as ‘langar’ that serves 50,000 to 100,000 hot meals every day to the hungry souls.

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The free meals served here is a symbol of the Sikh commitment to community service and equality. Visitors from every background are welcome here to enjoy the langar, which is a beautiful example of the Sikh principles of seva (selfless service).

It holds much reverence in the country and followers of Sikhism from across the world as the langar practice was started by Guru Nanak, the first guru of Sikhs, in 1481. Though free langars are served across all gurudwaras in the world, the langar at the Golden Temple is unique.
The Golden Temple's Langar operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week! It serves thousands and lakhs of people daily and the kitchen is run by volunteers on donations from the Sikh community and other well-wishers.


This community meal mostly includes vegetarian dishes, which includes dal, sabzi, chapati and kheer. The kitchen at the gurudwara features two huge dining halls, which can accommodate 5000 people at a time. People sit down on the floor and the food is by the volunteers.

One can only imagine how difficult it is to serve these many people every day? But the sewadars or workers make it look like a simple task. There are about 300 permanent workers and the rest are all volunteers who together make sure that the food is cooked and delivered on time.

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You’ll be shocked to know that there is a chapati making machine here, which was donated by a Lebanon-based devotee. This can prepare 25,000 rotis in just an hour! There are other huge machines for sieving and kneading dough and preparing chapatis.


On a normal day, nearly 5000 kg of wheat, 2000 kg of daal, 1400 kg of rice, 700 kg of milk and 100 gas cylinders are used to prepare meals in the kitchen.

This and a lot more makes the langar service at the Golden Temple internationally acclaimed and recognised by organisations and individuals across the globe!