This street is called Sethi-street because most of the old
houses belong to the family Sethi, one of the oldest merchant families in the city. The old houses are big and have a balcony. The magnificent sculptured wooden doors lead towards the big courtyards and towards the deep cellars - 15 meters under the ground - in order to cool their goods.
At the end of Sethi-street you see the Mogol-caravanserai Gor Khatri. A big Mongol gate leads to a big courtyard (200-m square), on all 4 sides there were rooms for travellers. This place is almost a holy place for more
than 2000 years. In the 2nd century after Christ it was a Buddhist Sanctuary and monastery. When Buddhism lost a bit of its popularity it became a Hindu temple, and in the Sikh period a mosque was built here, later on the Sikh's destroyed the Mosque and built a temple for Gokarhnath
(19th century).