A large number of devotees witnessed the hoisting of holy flags to mark the Kandoori festival at the Nagore Dargah in obeisance of the saint of Nagore Dargah here on Saturday.
The fortnight-long festivities commenced with a procession of flags traversing through the streets of the town and culminated in their hoisting on the five minarets flanking the Dargah.
The five-century-old Nagore shrine houses the tomb of Hazrat Syed Hameed Qadir Vali, in whose reverence the fortnight-long Kandoori festival is celebrated.
The festival, which evolved with the ‘renouncement of the temporal world’ by the saint, embraced people of all faiths, transcending religious contours.
And as the lore goes, it is the people of Nagapattinam who thronged the tomb of the saint in processions of flags, soon after the saint’s demise.
The obeisance will conclude on March 31 with the anointing of sandal paste on the tomb of the saint of Nagore.
On March 30, a procession of taking the sandal pots would be taken.
