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Malaysian Sikhs celebrate Guru Nanak’s Gurpurab

KUALA LUMPUR: The Sikhs of Malaysia have started month-long prayers to celebrate Guru Nanak’s 538th birthday at one of the oldest gurdwaras in Rawang.

Thousands of devotees reached the Nanaksar Temple on Wednesday to attend prayers for the first Guru of the Sikh faith.

‘Hundreds of devotees came to attend the prayers and volunteered to cook for devotees throughout the month,’ temple president Mahinder Kaur said.

During the month, Sri Guru Granth Sahib would be recited non-stop while religious hymns would be sung during theevenings.

Other activities organized on the occasion were a blood donation campaign and a procession of the holy book through Serendah town, the New Straits Times reported.

Malaysia has nearly 100,000 Sikhs and the Sikh community in Malaysia owes its arrival to the British connection and in particular the recruitment of Sikhs for the paramilitary and police units, which formed the nucleus from which the modern police and military forces of the nation were derived. The first of these units was the Perak Sikhs.

2 Januuary 2008
 

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