Brief
The 300th birth anniversary of the Khalsa Panth (a Sikh Religion) was celebrated at Anandpur Sahib with grand religious fervor. A large number of pilgrims from all over the world visited this shrine during this period. On this occasion all the holy shrines were illuminated by Philips state-of-the-art lighting systems.

Philips India was invited to present a comprehensive lighting plan incorporating street lighting, temple lighting, fort lighting and a sound and light show. Detailed presentations were made incorporating innovative lighting solutions used for the first time in the country.

Needs
The biggest challenge was to blend the light with the structure. Sikh architecture has a distinct touch with many curves and straight lines. The Shree Keshgarh Sahib (a Sacrosanct temple) has more than a 100 domes, some of which are very small and difficult to access. It would have been unfeasible to illuminate all of them with conventional flood lights.

Lighting Solution
A fibre optic lighting system consists of a light generator and a harness. The latter are tubes made of optic fibres which carry light. Such harnesses may emit light only at the far end (end-emitting) or all along its sides (side-emitting). A large number of tubes may be bundled together in a harness and connected to each light generator. Special lenses are attached to end-emitting tubes which act as miniature luminaires resulting in a dazzling array of many small luminaries which draw light from only a single lamp!

A combination of flood lights and fibre optic lighting systems were used to give the desired effect. Contrast was obtained in the otherwise marble white monument by using light sources of different colour temperatures and synchronized with a dynamic colour changing mechanism of the fibre optic lighting system. Programmable as well as synchronisable colour effects were achieved which could not have been achieved by any other system.

The project was rapidly completed in merely 3 months using equipments manufactured in India and Europe. The festivities were inaugurated by the Prime Minister of India. Moreover, this marvel of light won the prestigious Illuminating Engineering Society of North America Award.

Lamps
HPIT Plus 250W/400W, MHN-TD 150W, SON-T plus 150W, Trulite, SON 70(E), Halogen DE 1000W

Luminaires
Tempo 2/3, MNT001, SVF12, NVC52, SRP501, TRC33, DHF10, FOCUS100 fibre optics lighting system