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Muharram
 The Muharram festival is celebrated for 10 days. For 8 days the Mullah sits besides the peeras and devotion them reciting passages from Holy Koran. Many among the Hindus also offer worship at the holy place. They take a small measure of sugar along with them and hand it over to the Mullah who after chanting scriptures returns it as
prasadam to those who offered it. On the ninth day groups of young men from Muslims,
Bedas, Agasas, Kurubas and other lower communities start dancing in front of the
peeras till the evening of the next day to the beating of country drums. On the evening of the tenth day the
peeras are ceremoniously removed and they are taken through in the main streets in a procession and later on engrossed in a well. Muslim members sing in mournful tone and return home.
The tombs of former Jagirdar and his wife is located in the town Sarjapur which are held in veneration by Muslims and the annual Urs is held during Muharram
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