{"id":30601,"date":"2019-11-11T19:06:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T19:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=30601"},"modified":"2019-11-11T19:26:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T19:26:17","slug":"marking-the-550th-birth-anniversary-of-guru-nanak-dev-ji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/11\/marking-the-550th-birth-anniversary-of-guru-nanak-dev-ji\/","title":{"rendered":"Marking the 550th Birth Anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev Ji"},"content":{"rendered":"

To mark the 550th birth of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, events are taking place across the UK, \u00a0on Sunday 10 November a special Nanak Rhapsody took place at the Library of Birmingham.<\/p>\n

550 musicians and a choir performed a special piece of music to mark the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev Ji who is the founder of Sikhism.<\/p>\n

The anniversary is on the 12th November and events are happening across this month including processions and parades in Leicester, Smethwick, Coventry and Birmingham.<\/p>\n

Birmingham City University will be hosting its annual \u2018Langar on campus\u2019 event to mark the day.<\/p>\n

Karanjit Kaur, president of the Sikh Society at Birmingham City University\u2019s Students\u2019 Union, said: \u201cThis event is open to all regardless of colour, background or religion. It\u2019s an amazing event as we are spreading Guru Nanak Dev Ji\u2019s message of humanity and serving other people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sukhbir Singh, vice-president of the Sikh Society at Birmingham City University Students\u2019 Union, said the purpose of having Langar on Campus was to promote oneness and equality.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was started by our first Guru, hence why the Langar on Campus is being held earlier this year to celebrate the 550th Gurpurab of our Guru Ji. From previous years we\u2019ve noticed that doing this seva provides an excellent opportunity for Sikh students to engage positively in their student life,” said Singh.<\/p>\n

To mark the 550 birth of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, event are taking place across the UK, \u00a0on Sunday 10 November a special Nanak Rhapsody took place at the Library of Birmingham.<\/p>\n

550 musicians and a choir performed a special piece of music to mark the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev Ji who is the founder of Sikhism.<\/p>\n

The anniversary is on the 12th November and events are happening across this month including processions and parades in Leicester, Smethwick, Coventry and Birmingham.<\/p>\n

Birmingham City University will be hosting its annual \u2018Langar on campus\u2019 event to mark the day.<\/p>\n

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Karanjit Kaur, president of the Sikh Society at Birmingham City University\u2019s Students\u2019 Union, said: \u201cThis event is open to all regardless of colour, background or religion. It\u2019s an amazing event as we are spreading Guru Nanak Dev Ji\u2019s message of humanity and serving other people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sukhbir Singh, vice-president of the Sikh Society at Birmingham City University Students\u2019 Union, said the purpose of having Langar on Campus was to promote oneness and equality.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was started by our first Guru, hence why the Langar on Campus is being held earlier this year to celebrate the 550th Gurpurab of our Guru Ji. From previous years we\u2019ve noticed that doing this seva provides an excellent opportunity for Sikh students to engage positively in their student life,” said Singh.<\/p>\n

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To mark the 550th birth of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, events are taking place across the UK, \u00a0on Sunday 10 November a special Nanak Rhapsody took place at the Library of Birmingham. 550 musicians and a choir performed a special piece of music to mark the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev Ji who is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,37,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-local-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}