London Nagarathar Sangam

Welcome to London Nagarathar Sangam website.

London Nagarathar Sangam is a social gathering of Nattukottai Chettiar families in and around London. Nattukottai Chettiars come from various towns and villages commonly known as Chettinadu concentrated near the popularly known town of Karaikudi in the state of Tamil Nadu from South of India.

This website is about social gathering of Nagarathar Community in London to celebrate Pillaiyar Nonbu (Nombu), Diwali (Deepavali), Tamil New Year and optionally to organise a summer trip. You can expect to see all the London chettiar's, achi's, iyya's, ayya's, appatha's, anna's, annamandi's, thambi's and mapillai's in the meetings. If you belong to Nagarathar Community then please feel free to come to the meetings to make you feel at home when your thousands of miles away. See you in the meetings soon.

Upcoming Events

Date: 17th Oct 2009

Deepavalli

Location:

Bromley Parish Church
St. Peter & St. Paul of Bromley
Church Road, Bromley, Kent,
BR2 0EG

Recent Events

18th Apr 2009

Virodhi Tamil New year was celebrated with usual joy and Sangam Annual General Meeting elected a new committee for the new year. Mr and Mrs Ramasellappan (a) silamban's daughter Mani Meghalai celebrated her 2nd birthday with all the members.

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25th Oct 2008

Diwali the perfect festival for joy, happiness, fireworks and sweets was celebrated on the 25th Oct 2008 with the usual flavour

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21st June 2008

Summer Trip - Leeds Castle: All shoes and jackets were finally on and we were ready to march to the castle, but weren’t too surprised to be greeted by rain. Our prayers to rain gods were answered instantly with bright sunshine.more....

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15th Jun 2008

Justice AR.Lakshmanan, Chairman of Law Commission and former Judge of Supreme Court of India, visited London along with Mr. A.Muthu, Managing Director of SAF Yeast Co.Pvt Ltd. Mr. Palaniappa Chettiar, Trustee, London Sri Murugan Temple invited Mr. AR. Lakshmanan to the Temple where he met many nagarathars and was honoured by a special pooja.

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14th Jun 2008

A few London Nagarathar members namely, Valli Lakshman, Selvaganesan Ramanathan, Mani Ramanathan, Valliappan and Raja Alagappan visited Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity on 14th June. Missionaries of Charity is a calm, serene, peaceful, well maintained place, serving the destitute and homeless people living in poverty. They have a scheme called 'Soup Kitchen' where they serve food for the homeless people in and around London from 3pm to 6pm everyday except on Thursdays and Saturdays. The members who visited the charity gave donation and some clothes on behalf of the Sangam and did some volunteer work during the visit.

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