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'''Hola Mohalla''' ([[Gurmukhi]]: ਹੋਲਾ-ਮਹੱਲਾ ''hōlā muhalā''), also called '''Hola''', is a three-day long [[Sikh]] festival which normally falls in March.<ref name="SikhSpectrum">{{cite journal |last=Ahluwalia |first=M.S. |date=November 2004 |title=Tourism: The Festival of Hola Mohalla |journal=SikhSpectrum.com Quarterly |issue=18 |url=http://www.sikhspectrum.com/112004/hola.htm |access-date=2008-09-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517080324/http://www.sikhspectrum.com/112004/hola.htm |archive-date=17 May 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Calendar">{{cite web |url=http://www.sikhworld.co.uk/page19.html |title=Sikh Calendar |access-date=2008-09-17 |work=SikhWorld.co.uk |author=Amolak Singh}}</ref> It takes place on the second day of the [[lunar month]] of [[Chet (month)|Chett]], usually a day after the Hindu spring festival [[Holi]] but sometimes, coincides with it.<ref>
Hola Mohalla is a big festive event for Sikhs around the world. The fair held during Holi and Hola at [[Anandpur Sahib]] is traditionally a three-day event but participants attend Anandpur Sahib for a week, camping out and enjoying various displays of fighting prowess and bravery, and listening to [[kirtan]], music and poetry.<ref name="Ceremonies">{{cite web |url=http://www.sikhworld.co.uk/page22.html |title=Sikh Ceremonies |access-date=2008-09-17 |work=SikhWorld.co.uk |author=Amolak Singh}}</ref> For meals, which is an integral part of the Sikh institution ([[Gurdwara]]), visitors sit together in ''Pangats'' (Queues) and eat [[lacto-vegetarian]] food of the [[Langar (Sikhism)|Langars]].<ref name="SikhChic">{{cite web |url=http://www.sikhchic.com/article-detail.php?id=119&cat=5 |title=The Hola Mohalla Festival |access-date=2008-09-17 |work=SikhChic.com |date=March 2007}}</ref> The event concludes on the day of Hola Mohalla with a long, "military-style" procession near [[Takht Sri Keshgarh Sahib]], one of the five seats of temporal authority of the Sikhs.<ref name="Celebrate">{{cite web |url=http://www.gurbani.org/articles/webart304.htm |title=Celebrating Holi |access-date=2008-09-17 |work=Reflections On Gurbani |author=T. Singh |date= 15 August 2008 }}</ref>
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