The Khalsa celebrating the Sikh festival Hola Mohalla or simply Hola.
Also called
Hola
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Three-day[1] fair at the Anandpur Sahib ending on Hola Mohalla, Martial arts
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Second day of lunar month of Chet
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Annual
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Holi, Shigmo and Yaosang
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Hola Mohalla (Gurmukhi: ਹੋਲਾ-ਮਹੱਲਾ hōlā muhalā), also called Hola, is a three-day long Sikh festival which normally falls in March.[2][3] It takes place on the second day of the lunar month of Chett, usually a day after the Hindu spring festival Holi, but sometimes coincides with it.[4][5]
Hola Mohalla is a big festive event for Sikhs around the world.
The fair held during Holi and Hola at Anandpur Sahib is traditionally a three-day event but participants attend Anandpur Sahib for a week, camping out and enjoying various displays of fighting prowess and bravery, and listening to kirtan, music and poetry.[6] For meals, which is an integral part of the Sikh institution (Gurdwara), visitors sit together in Pangats (Queues) and eat lacto-vegetarian food of the Langars.[7] The event concludes on the day of Hola Mohalla with a long, "military-style" procession near Takht Kesgarh Sahib, one of the five seats of temporal authority (referred as "Panj Takht") of the Sikhs.[8]
^Cite error: The named reference festival1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Ahluwalia, M.S. (November 2004). "Tourism: The Festival of Hola Mohalla". SikhSpectrum.com Quarterly (18). Archived from the original on 17 May 2008. Retrieved 14 September 2008.
^Amolak Singh. "Sikh Calendar". SikhWorld.co.uk. Retrieved 17 September 2008.
^Fieldhouse, Paul (2017) Food, Feasts, and Faith: An Encyclopedia of Food Culture in World Religions [2 volumes]. ABC-CLIO [1]
^Yang, Ananad. A. (1998) Bazaar India: Markets, Society, and the Colonial State in Gangetic Biharr University of California Press [2]
^Amolak Singh. "Sikh Ceremonies". SikhWorld.co.uk. Retrieved 17 September 2008.
^"The Hola Mohalla Festival". SikhChic.com. March 2007. Retrieved 17 September 2008.
^T. Singh (15 August 2008). "Celebrating Holi". Reflections On Gurbani. Retrieved 17 September 2008.
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