Kera, Kutch

Kera is a village in Bhuj Taluka of Kutch district of Gujarat, India.this historical town was ruled by the jadeja's before independence in 1947.

[1] Southeast of Kera, a small village, on a pretty rising ground, has the well-wooded shrine of the saint Ghulam Ali.

Within the enclosure are three chief buildings, a mausoleum, dargah with a tomb under a canopy, supported by twelve small Islamic styled columns.

Against the pall lies the photograph of a Mughal saint, and below him Hassan and Husain, and in third frame Prophet Muhammad, the face left blank in part obedience to the orders of the Quran.

The doors have projecting shields between floral ornaments, like those found at Maiji Sahiba's tomb at Junagadh and on the palace at Navanagar (now Jamnagar) in Kathiawar.

Losing her son in 1807 she renounced the world and spent the rest of her life as an ascetic, endowing an alms-house, sadavrat, where, to the destitute of all castes and creeds, daily doles of grain are still given.

Both this lady and her husband Ghulam Ali continued Sadruddin's work of adding to the Hindu element in their form of faith.

Historic Shri Abjibapani Chhatedi of Swaminarayan Sampraday at Baladia is located close to Kera, northerly[2]

Shiva Temple at Kera, Kutch
Lakheshwar Mahadev Temple, Kera