Seven gurdwaras were built in Delhi in about eight months in 1783 under the settlement Baghel Singh negotiated with Shah Alam II, marking sites associated with the Gurus.
Sis Ganj at Chandni Chowk marks the execution of Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji in 1675. Rakab Ganj marks the cremation. Bangla Sahib marks the house where Guru Har Krishan Ji stayed and died. Majnu ka Tila on the Yamuna marks a visit by Guru Nanak Dev Ji. Nanak Piao marks another. Moti Bagh and Mata Sundari commemorate the tenth Guru's approach to the city and Mata Sundari Ji's long residence there.
Bala Sahib, on the site where Guru Har Krishan Ji was cremated, is now a hospital and gurdwara complex.
They are administered by the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee under a 1971 statute, separate from the SGPC, and Delhi Sikh politics is its own system.
In 1783 a Sikh force with no intention of holding Delhi negotiated the right to build these buildings and then left, and the buildings are still there.
The terms Baghel Singh took were a share of the city's octroi to pay for the building and a withdrawal once it was finished. He held the area around the Red Fort for those months and left when the work was done.
Most were founded under the agreement Baghel Singh made in 1783, when the Khalsa held the city for several months and identified the sites.
The Delhi committee is separate from the SGPC by statute and runs schools, colleges and hospitals as well as the shrines, which makes it one of the largest Sikh institutions anywhere.