World’s Largest Free Kitchen

At the Sikh Golden Temple(also known as Harmandir Sahib) in Amritsar,India nearly 100,000 people eat here on average day and swelling up to 150,000 on holy days and not a single one of them have to pay for the food they consume.

Golden Temple Amritsar,India Image Source

Who said there is no such thing as a free food?

This free food is called “Langer”. No one goes hungry. Everyone gets a hot meal . Everyone sits crossed-legged on the carpet in a line, the food is served by the volunteers. More than 90 percent volunteers are visitors. The food includes dal(pulses), vegetables, Roti(Bread or chapati) and a thick South Asian rice pudding called kheer.

Making of bread(Roti) on machine Image Source :By BOMBMAN

Metal plates for serving Image Source: By shankar s.

Serving in line with equality Image Source: By shankar s.

An astonishing amount of raw materials on daily basis:
12,000 kilos of flour, 1,500 kilos of rice,13,000 kilos of lentils,Up to 2,000 kilos of vegetables,100 LPG cylinders and 5,000 kilograms of firewood on a daily basis. The kitchen is run by 450 staff member, helped by hundreds of other volunteers. The langar, never closes and even late at night. The food is served in metal plates, spoon and bowl for water. Volunteers also wash 300,000 plates, bowls and spoons used in feeding the people. The food is vegetarian and the expenses are managed by the donations from all over the world.

Each dish is washed five separate times Image source: By Laszlo Bolgar

The concept of langars was initiated centuries ago by Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikh religion more than 500 years ago. It was designed to represent the principal of equality between all the people, the tradition of langar expresses the ethics of sharing, community, inclusiveness and oneness of all mankind.

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