First Installation of the Guru Granth Sahib · Pehla Prakash Purab Guru Granth Sahib

Culture of origin: Sikh · Cultural

Holiday sources: Sikhism

On September 1, 1604, Guru Arjan installed the newly compiled Adi Granth in the Harmandir Sahib at Amritsar, with Baba Buddha as its first reader. A century later Guru Gobind Singh made the scripture, now the Guru Granth Sahib, the Guru of the Sikhs. The anniversary is kept on Bhadon sudi 1, the first day of the bright half of Bhadon, with a procession to the Golden Temple and religious programmes there.