The Sikh religious site Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, in the Pakistani town of Kartarpur near the Indian border.
The Sikh religious site Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, in the Pakistani town of Kartarpur near the Indian border.
AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images
CNN  — 

After more than 70 years, Indian Sikhs will now be able to visit one of the religion’s holiest sites by crossing the international border with Pakistan without a visa.

The Kartarpur Corridor is a 4.1 kilometer (2.5 mile) overland passage that links the Dera Baba Nana shrine in northwest India’s Gurdaspur with the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur, Pakistan.

The Sikh temple – known as a Gurdwara – of Darbar Sahib is believed to be where the founder of Sikhism, Guru Nanak, lived and died at the start of the 16th century.