Guru Nanak Gurpurab

Culture of origin: Sikh · Cultural

Holiday sources: Iran · Sikhism

Guru Nanak Gurpurab celebrates the birth of the first Sikh Guru and founder of Sikhism, born in 1469 at Talwandi, now Nankana Sahib in Pakistan. It is one of the most sacred Sikh festivals and is dated, like most Gurpurabs, by the lunar Bikrami calendar, on the full moon of Kartik. Sikhs first came to Iran in the early 20th century, settling first in Zahedan; most of the small community later moved to Tehran, whose gurdwara, Bhai Ganga Singh Sabha, was founded in 1941.