The Sangam Calendar
Gatherings that markour year in Nagore
The Sangam stands in a town whose year is shaped by the fourteen-day Kandhoori at the dargah. Its own gatherings — the Meelad procession its Baithu Sabha once led, the welcome of returning Hajis, the alumni prizes — are recorded in its centenary souvenir.
- 14
- Days of Kandhoori
- 131 ft
- The dargah’s tallest minaret
- 20
- Towns beaten at Keezhakkarai
- 1921
- The Ali Brothers received
Kandhoori Festival
The Kandhoori of Hazrath Syed Shahul Hameed
Fourteen days
The great festival of Nagore, fourteen days at the dargah of Hazrath Syed Shahul Hameed, who settled here some four hundred and seventy years ago. The dargah covers 1,94,790 square feet; its tallest minaret, of 131 feet, was raised by the Maratha king Pratap Singh of Thanjavur.
- Fourteen days at the dargah of Hazrath Syed Shahul Hameed
- Nadaswaram and shehnai played from the same stage — said to be unique in India
- Fifteen villages and some seven thousand acres granted by Pratap Singh of Thanjavur
- The Sangam's hall and muhalla stand within the town it fills
Annual Calendar
Through the Hijri year
What the centenary souvenir records of the Sangam's year, and of the processions its Baithu Sabha once led.
As convened
General Body
General Body Meeting
The general body elects the executive committee. In 1922 a body of 127 members elected a committee of about twenty-five; the register of members has been kept since 1996.
12 Rabi’ al-Awwal
Milad un-Nabi
Meelad Festival
The festival whose procession the Sangam's Baithu Sabha once led through the muhalla with baith and daff, from the Ghouthiyya Mahal to the dargah and back before dawn.
School calendar
ஆண்டு விழா
School Annual Day
The annual day of the Ghouthiyya schools, at which the year's work is placed before the parents and the muhalla.
School calendar
விளையாட்டு விழா
Sports Festival
Held on the Ghouthia Sporting Club ground, whose entrance arch was built from the proceeds of the club's own tournaments.
Monthly
Classes III – X
Attendance Prizes
Special prizes given each month to students of the third to the tenth standard on their attendance.
Through the year
மாணவர் மன்றம்
Students’ & Literary Forum
The forum in which the school's students are trained in oratory and the arts — the same training that produced the singers of the Baithu Sabha.
On return from Hajj
Custom of the muhalla
Welcome of the Hajis
Members once rose before dawn, gathered at the Ghouthiyya Mahal and walked to the railway station to meet the six o'clock train with takbir, escorting each Haji home.
Since 2022
Alumni
Old Students’ Prizes
Cash awards from the alumni association to the students placed first, second and third in classes X, XI and XII.
Invitation
“கௌதிய்யா சங்கம் என்பது விழுதுகள் படர்ந்த ஓர் ஆலமரம்.”
“The Ghouthiyya Sangam is a banyan whose aerial roots have spread” — from the centenary souvenir