Across Mid­lands West in the US, many Gur­d­waras have re­solved to adopt the Mool Nanakshahi cal­en­dar set­ting in a trend for oth­ers to fol­low so that Guru Gob­ind Singh Parkash Purab is cel­e­brated on 5 Jan­u­ary and Jathedar Akal Takht may re­view the re­gres­sive de­ci­sion taken early last month.

The Chicago Mool Nanakshahi Cal­en­dar Im­ple­men­ta­tion Con­fer­ence in No­vem­ber may prove to be a game changer with many Gur­d­waras adopt­ing the cal­en­dar and paving the path for uni­ver­sal ac­cep­tance and ap­pli­ca­tion of the cal­en­dar dates in our per­sonal, so­cial and re­li­gious lives.

In the United States of Amer­ica, the Sikh Re­li­gious So­ci­ety, the old­est and largest of the Mid­west Gur­d­wara since 1970s, took a his­tor­i­cal world lead­er­ship role in cre­at­ing a wave for the com­plete adop­tion of the Mool Nanakshahi Cal­en­dar, along with sev­eral other com­mu­nity and re­li­gious or­ga­ni­za­tions, whose list of adoptees con­tin­ues to grow.

“The Sikh Re­li­gious So­ci­ety, Illi­nois has taken the his­tor­i­cal world lead­er­ship role in cre­at­ing a wave for the com­plete adop­tion of the Mool Nanakshahi Cal­en­dar.”

Pan­thic schol­ars and Gur­d­wara lead­ers hope that this mo­men­tum may force the SGPC and the Akal Takht Jathedars to re­view their de­ci­sion not only re­gard­ing cel­e­brat­ing Gur­purab of Guru Gob­ind Singh Ji on 5 Jan­u­ary but also of re­view­ing and ac­cept­ing the de­ci­sion to fully adopt the Mool Nanakshahi cal­en­dar.

To con­tinue the cam­paign, Gur­d­waras in Michi­gan will hold an­other such con­fer­ence early next year.

The early adopters of the Mool Nanakshahi Cal­en­dar, as per in­for­ma­tion avail­able at the time of writ­ing are:

1.     Sikh Re­li­gious So­ci­ety, Pala­tine, Illi­nois,  
2.    Singh Sabha of Michi­gan, Can­ton, Michi­gan
3.    Guru Gob­ind Singh Sikh So­ci­ety of Cleve­land, Ohio
4.    Guru Nanak Foun­da­tion, Cleve­land, Ohio
5.    Sikh So­ci­ety of In­di­ana, In­di­ana
6.    Dashmesh Gur­d­wara of Fort Wayne, In­di­ana
7.    Sikh Study Cir­cle, Stone Moun­tain, Geor­gia
8.    Amer­i­can Sikh Coun­cil
9.    Global Sikh Coun­cil
10.  Sikh Na­tional Archives of Canada, On­tario
11.  Shi­ro­mani Akali Dal (Am­rit­sar) -USA chap­ter
12.  Sil­vis Gur­d­wara Sahib, Sil­vis, Illi­nois
13.  Guru Nanak So­ci­ety, Hamil­ton, Ohio
14.  Gur­d­wara in Colum­bus, Ohio
15.  Sikh So­ci­ety of Madi­son, WI
16. Banda Singh Ba­hadur In­ter­na­tional So­ci­ety, New York

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The Sikh Re­li­gious So­ci­ety has ap­pealed to all Pan­thic or­gan­i­sa­tions to adopt the Mool Nanakshahi cal­en­dar to up­hold the sov­er­eign char­ac­ter of the Sikh faith and its glo­ri­ous her­itage.