David Cameron in Guru ka Langar Golden Temple

Prime Minister and his wife Samantha Cameron visits Guru ka Langar Golden Temple at Amritsar

The Prime Minister visited the kitchens which feed thousands of pilgrims every day and tried his hand at flipping chapatis

Prime Minister and his wife Samantha Cameron join celebrations for Vaisakhi festival

British Prime Minister David Cameron paid obeisance at the holiest shrine of Sikh religion Golden Temple where he was presented a robe of honour. Cameron paid obeisance inside the sanctum sanctorum at 10:25 AM

This is the first visit by a high-profile British dignitary to Amritsar after 1997, when Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, had visited the holy City.

The British Prime Minister reached the Golden Temple at about 9:50 AM and spend nearly an hour inside.

Before paying obeisance by bowing his head inside the sanctum sanctorum, the British leader was taken around the Temple by officials of the SGPC, apex religious body of the Sikhs, and was also shown Shri Guru Ram Dass Langar Hall.

Cameron had his hands folded for a brief period as he paid obeisance inside the sanctum sanctorum of the Golden Temple, which attracts a large number of devotees cutting across faiths from different parts of the world.