Largest gathering of Sikhs
- Who
- Anandpur Sahib
- What
- 8000000 people
- Where
- India (Anandpur, Punjab,)
- When
- 17 April 1999
Over eight million Sikhs gathered at the Anandpur Sahib gurdwara (Sikh temple), Punjab, in India from 13-17 April 1999 to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Sikh Khalsa, an order of the Sikh religion. More than 3.5 million people gathered there on 13 April the day of the Vaisakhi festival, to commemorate the day that the Sikh Khalsa was established.
Vaisakhi, on 13 April is the first day of the Sikh and Hindu calendar. It is particularly important to Sikhs as the day that the tenth Sikh guru, Guru Gobind Singh defined a code of conduct for a Sikh order, in 1699.