The Gurdwara was originally in the compound of the Ashby Road Army camp. It was moved from there by the Officer Commanding the sappers and Miners of the 8th. Division of the Azad Hind Fauj ( Indian National Army ) in 1942 to its present site. When Colonel Matab Wulk was the Commanding Officer of the Division, there was a Gurdwara and a Mosque in the loons of the  Army Camp. The 2nd. Battalion Commanders, who were Mohammedans, objected to the presence of the Gurdwara and the Mosque in the Camp, and Col. Matab Wulk decided that the Gurdwara and the Mosque be built outside the Camp perimeter. To execute his orders, the Mosque was made first, and then the Gurdwara at its present site.

The site of the present Gurdwara Sahib was chosen by Capt. Teja Singh of the 2nd. Battalion and Capt. Gatar Singh of the Sappers and Miners unit. The Sikh soldiers under their command were ordered to collect 100 bricks per soldier, and gather them together at the site. The soldiers whole-heartedly collected the bricks from far and near with great enthusiasm. The Gurdwara was built by the sappers and Miners themselves.

When Col. Bishen Singh from the Officers Training School at Batu Pahat took over the command of the Division in Ipoh, the Gurdwara was already operational.

In 1944, the command of the Division was passed over to Col. Bhonsle. When he surrendered the command to the British Occupation Forces, the Gurdwara Sahib was still there.

When the I.N.A. units were moved out of Ipoh during the latter part of 1944/45, the management of the Gurdwara Sahib was handed over to Sardar Bhagwan Singh Lallpuria, and the Government servants staying around the vicinity.

Bhai Gurdial Singh served as Granthi of the Gurdwara Sahib from 1947 until he passed away in 1982. He did voluntary service most of the time.

The Gurdwara Sahib was registered on 9th. February 1951 with the Registrar of Societies. It is one of the earliest registered Gurdwaras in the country.

A four-room unit was built for the Granthi's residence in 1954. The service of providing the building was done by Mr. K. Lim of Ipoh. The foundation stone was laid by Mata Basant Kaur, the mother of Sardar Amar Singh of the Supreme Court Ipoh on 16th. July 1954.

The Gurdwara Sahib reserve was officially approved by the Land office on 30th. May 1956. Lot No: 2653N - an area of 2 roods and 28 poles. The Committee at that moment was headed by Sardar Sant Singh, a Surveyor. The reserve was gazetted on 21st. August 1958 via Government Notification 805 of the Perak Government Gazette.

The present Gurdwra Sahib building was built in 1963 with the help of a Government Grant of RM25,000.00. The foundation stone was laid by Sant Sohan Singh Ji of Malacca ( Melaka ) in 1964.. A plaque to this effect is installed at the entrance to the Gurdwara Sahib.

In 1964, the Government also approved a T.O.L. for the car park. TOL fees were paid until 1982 when collection of TOL fees was discontinued. The Gurdwara Parbandhak Committees have applied for this piece of land for a Car park, and had long discussions with the Asst. District Officer in the Land Office, but no positive results are forthcoming.

In 1966, the then Parbandhak Committee headed by Sardar Ditt Singh of the Election Office applied for an adjacent piece of land to build a Punjabi School. The application was approved on 2nd. December 1967. A double storey building was put up in 1968 with public donations. An application to gazette this plot of land was submitted by the then Parbandhak Committee headed by Sardar Gordip Singh ( 2000-2004) to the State Secretary Perak, and the land has been gazetted under the Gurdwara Sahib. Sardar C. Pritam Singh played a major role in the processing of this application.                                                                                                                             

 To-date, efforts still continue to get the Car Park gazetted  under the Gurdwara Sahib. However, this year 2009, the State Secretary Incorporated to whom the said land has been alienated, has consented to let us use the said land for a car park for a small nominal fee of Ringgir three hundred and fifty a year.

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