Browsing Tag: Nagar Kirtan

Crowds of people wearing a rainbow of coloured robes, scarves, turbans and other head coverings packed Mill Woods Road Sunday to celebrate the founding of the Sikh community.

Included are: three different swords, a set of hair with comb, a turban, a 'chola' (cloak), a whip, a bunch of five arrows, a 'siri sahib' (small three-inch dagger), a spear with a wooden handle, a small plain steel spear, a big sword and a sword with engravings.

Addressing a gathering at the Shaheedi Jor Mela, in the memory of younger sons of Guru Gobind Singh, Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh here today said the Sikhs would not tolerate any interference in the religious matters of the community.

Preparations for the 35th annual Nagar Kirtan Sikh Festival have kicked into high gear as local agencies prepare for an influx of people that will about double the population of the city.

Organized by the Punjabi American Heritage Society, the festival was established to celebrate Punjabi culture. Mrs. Narinder Kaur Dhillon (ensaaf.org), sister of late Kuljit Dhatt (from Shahid Bhagat Singh's family), struck an emotional chord with the audience when she talked about her perspective on Human Rights in Punjab.

The Sikh community of Preston [U.K.] will be holding the first ever Nagar Kirtan in the city on May 18th. Marching from Tunbridge Street from around 9am the procession will move up New Hall Lane towards the Flag Market for the event.

...to have almost close to 1000 Sikhs arrive on April 20th in Blue and Kesri Turbans, Chunnis or Patkaas, not only listen to attend Kirtan Darbar but then become part of an unusual Kirtan Darbar through the street of Downtown Phoenix, was indeed, a miracle.

Sikhs celebrate 544th birthday celebrations of first Sikh Guru, Sri Guru Nanak Devji on a mammoth scale on November 17, 2013.

Let’s make our religious processions cleaner. Let’s leave the streets cleaner and greener than before the Nagar Kirtan, so the holy procession is truly a blessing to everywhere it has passed through…

The celebrations of 545th birth anniversary of first Sikh Guru and founder of Sikhism, Baba Guru Nanak starts from November 15 in Pakistan.

Thousands of spectators flocked the streets of Yuba City during the 34th Annual Sikh Parade Nov. 3, which marked the end of a thee-day religious celebration to commemorate the day of installation of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib.

Preparations for the 34th annual Sikh Parade have kicked into high gear as temple leaders brace for a massive influx of participants and spectators next weekend...

“Seva is only half done if we leave garbage behind processions, kirtan samagams or jagratas (religious prayer programmes), langars (free festival food) and chhabeels. We must take responsibility to clean up after religious, personal or public events,” said EcoAmritsar Chairman, Gunbir Singh.

Thousands of Sikhs took to the streets on Sunday to walk for more than four hours as part of an annual procession.

...the Khalsa Diwan Society, each year Queensborough's Gurdwara Sahib (Sikh Temple) organizes a parade and religious procession, or Nagar Kirtan, to commemorate the life and death of their "fifth spiritual master, Guru Arjan Sahib Ji."

As the decorated lead vehicle carrying the holy Guru Granth pulls in, Toronto’s annual Vaisakhi or Khalsa Parade culminates into a big rally at the city’s heart at Nathan Phillips Square. Panj Piaras who led the Khalsa Parade given prominence at the stage.

Videos ~ Vaisakhi Nagar Kirtan in the UK.

If making people happy was the aim of this function, I had a personal knowledge that it was successful and everybody seem to be leaving the function in a happy mood. This all is not possible without the blessings of the God Almighty.

Some 15,000 Sikhs from Southern California and beyond came together on Sunday, April 7th to Celebrate Baisakhi at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

The 383th “BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS OF SEVENTH SIKH GURU SRI GURU HAR RAI SAHEB JI was celebrated with religious gaiety and devotion by the Sikh community of twin cities on Sunday

As part of the ongoing 347th Prakash Utsav of Tenth and Last Sikh Guru, Sri Guru Gobind Singhji, founder of Khalsa Panth and who protected the nation from invaders, a huge colourful ''NAGAR KEERTAN'' (HOLY PROCESSION) was taken out by the Prabhandak Committee of Central Gurudwara Saheb Gowliguda on Wednesday.

Around 100,000 Sangat come to Southall on Sunday, 18th November 2012 for the annual Guru Nanak Gurpurb Nagar Kirtan.

On Sunday, the Sikh community in the city took out a procession from the Gurdwara in Ulsoor all the way till Commercial Street. Devotees sang bhajans and chanted the name of Guru Nanak during the march.

Local residents of Southall came together to celebrate the Festival of Light. People gathered at Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha, Guru Nanak Darbar & Guru Amardass in old part of Southall to offer their prayers and to light up candles.

Sikhs from all over the world participated in the annual Sikh parade held at Yuba City in the United States on November 4 to mark the Gurta Gaddi Divas. ...Attended by thousands, the stop-and-go parade was punctuated by martial arts demonstrations.

Sikhs in Yuba City, California, will be holding their 33rd annual Sikh Parade this Sunday, which is often recognized as the largest Sikh nagar kirtan (religious procession) in the country

The scent of Indian spices filled the air Sunday as a colorful, ornate parade boomed its way to a South Salem High School parking lot.

Sikhs from around the Lower Mainland gathered in Queensborough on Sunday to celebrate the life, teachings and martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev Ji.

More than 20,000 Sikhs in northeast Calgary came together to celebrate a special holiday Saturday marking the birth of their religion. The celebration also gathered donations for the Calgary Interfaith Food Bank...

Thousands of people – many in orange turbans, scarves and robes – followed the procession, and handed out sweets and treats to onlookers.