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The five levels of SFV membership vary from $11 per year for full-time students, to $2,500 one time for a Patron.

General Member ($31 per year)
Life Member ($1,100 lump sum)
Full-time Student ($11 per year)
Contributing Trustee ($1,100 first year, $551 annually thereafter.)
Patron ($2,500 lump sum)

SFV Voice 2021 Fall Edition Published

Key highlights from the newsletter include:

Messages from the Chairman (Amarjit Singh Riat), Secretary (Manjit Singh Taneja), Treasurer (Harjit Singh) share encouraging trends and metrics indicating progress in the return to normalcy. Extended times went into effect for the regular Sunday and Thursday diwan's.
Your comments are encouraged on SFV's Mission for the 21st Century. Contact Surjeet S. Sidhu.
Updates on Gurmat School, Annual 2021 Picnic, SFV Outreach, COVID-19 vaccination camps at SFV
Saadh Sangat's Corner: Narratives, comments, and poems
Editor's Corner (Ajaib Singh) requesting your contributions for the next edition of SFV Voice.

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SFV Seniors Program restarted on July 7

The Sikh Foundation of Virginia (SFV) Seniors Program is active again after its temporary COVID-19 suspension. The Program serves the social and wellness needs of the SFV senior Sangat (55 and older). Participants seek to enrich lives, their own and of others, through meaningful social interaction. Contact the Coordinator or Facilitator for details or to join.

Gurmat School started on Sunday Sep. 12, 2021

Registration for the 2021 cohort of the SFV Gurmat School is now open. The weekly online sessions started on Sunday, September 12 and run from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM for kids in four age-based groups. The curriculum focuses on Gurmukhi (reading, writing, and speaking), reading and understanding Gurbani, understanding the beliefs, and Sikh history. Read more for registration and details.

SFV Regular Schedule

Sundays

Asa di War	10:00am - 11:20am
Kirtan	11:20am - 12:30pm
Ardas & Hukamnama	12:30pm

Thursdays (Evening Diwan)

Rehras Sahib	7:00pm - 7:30pm
Kirtan	7:30pm - 8:30pm
Ardas & Hukamnama	8:30pm

Generally, Gurdwara Sahib Premises are open from 5:30am to 9:00pm each day. Sri Guru Granth Sahib Parkash is at 5:30am; Rehras Sahib is recited at dusk (except on Diwan days) followed by Sukh Asan.

On days of evening Diwans, Gurdwara Sahib Premises remain open late until Langar service is over.

Gurdwara Sahib Premises stay open during Akhand Paths (generally from Friday mornings through Sundays).

During after hours, if a Sangat member wishes to pay obeisance, please contact Gurdwara Sahib resident Sewadar at (703) 323-8849.

The first Gurdwara in Virginia

The Sikh Foundation of Virginia was founded in 1978. There was no Gurdwara in Virginia then, and families would go to Gurdwaras in the District of Columbia or Maryland.

When the number of families in Northern Virginia reached a critical mass, about a dozen like-minded Punjabi families explored the idea of building a gurdwara in Northern Virginia to meet the religious, cultural and social needs of their community.

Over the next three years, the Committee launched a membership drive, selected and registered the name of the organization as Sikh Foundation of Virginia, and approved its Constitution and Bylaws. The organization purchased five-acres of land in 1981. The groundbreaking for the building was held in 1987, and the present Gurdwara Sahib was inaugurated on Baisakhi day in 1989.

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