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Hundreds of people gathered in Birmingham over the weekend for an event organised by police to celebrate the Sikh festival of ...
This Friday marks Vaisakhi, one of the most significant and widely observed annual celebrations for Sikhs, who make up the fifth-largest major world religion. Vaisakhi – sometimes spelled ...
Thousands of people gathered in a Black Country park for an event that has been described as the UK's largest Vaisakhi celebration. The open-air event took place in Smethwick's Victoria Park on Sunday ...
Vaisakhi is one of the most important dates in the Sikh calendar. Vaisakhi is a spring festival which happens on the 13 or 14 April every year. It is a day to celebrate 1699 - the year when ...
The April celebration Vaisakhi is a time when Sikhs gather for community worship, meals, and parades. Business Insider spoke with two Sikhs who celebrate the family-oriented springtime occasion.
Vaisakhi started as a harvest festival in the Punjabi region of northern India. It also celebrates the creation of the Khalsa order. It promotes justice and equality and the creation of a more ...
The 2025 Surrey Nagar Kirtan, also known as the Vaisakhi Parade, welcomed over 550,000 people to the Newton area on Saturday. The event is now considered the largest Vaisakhi procession in the world.
Nagar Kirtan, which means “singing hymns through the town,” is a Sikh tradition in which sacred music and teachings are shared publicly to mark Vaisakhi — the festival that commemorates the founding ...
Thousands of people attended Vaisakhi celebrations in Wolverhampton on Sunday. The festival took place between 12:00-17:00 BST at West Park, with entertainment including a fun fair, stalls and ...
Thousands of people from the Sikh community have marked Vaisakhi in events across the West Midlands. More than 10,000 gathered in Coventry and Wolverhampton to parade through the streets with many ...
NANKANA SAHIB, Pakistan (AP) — Thousands of Sikhs were in Pakistan on Monday to celebrate Vaisakhi, a harvest festival that marks the start of the Sikh New Year and is mostly observed in Punjab ...