Hemkund Sahib (Formerly Gurudwara Shri Hemkund Sahib Ji) is a Sikh place of worship in the Uttarakhand state, India. The place is in devotion to the tenth Guru of Sikhism- Shri Guru Gobind Singh. Guru Ji has himself mentioned the place in his work ‘Dasam Granth’. Gurudwara Hemkund Sahib Mangament Trust yesterday announced that Portals of Gurudwara Hemkund Sahib to open for devotees on May 20th .However trust decided to allow only 2500 pilgrims to visit the shrine on first day of opening due to heavy snowfall. Number of pilgrims visiting Gurudwara will allow increasing in month of June when snow will be melted. Hemkund is inaccessible from October through April because of snowbound paths and glaciers. Sikh pilgrims arrive in May and set to work to repair the damage to the path over the winter, which tradition is called kar seva ("selfless service"), a concept which forms an important tenet of the Sikh faith.

The name ‘Hemkund Sahib’ comes from the words ‘Hem’ meaning ‘Snow’ and ‘Kund’ meaning ‘reservoir or pond’, hence meaning ‘The reservoir of snow’. This is because the location of the pilgrimage site is amid the snow-capped Himalayas and the water of the ‘Kund’ in its front is as cold as snow. It is one of the holiest pilgrimages in India.

According to the history of the temple, initially, local inhabitants built it under the name of ‘Lokpal’ which means ‘the one who sustains people’. Later, when the famous Sikh historian Bhai Santokh Singh of Tehri Garhwal discovered the present form of the temple, he visited the place with Baba Kartar Singh Bedi in 1934. Also, according to Pandit Tara Singh Narotam, it is one of the places where King Pandu meditated. Moreover, the Dasam Granth says that God ordered Guru Gobind Singh to take birth while he was in deep meditation at the mount of Hemkund Sahib.