Waqf · Endowment · Nankodai
Almost everything the Sangam owns was given. The land and building were bought for Rs 1,700 by the Rangoon traders\u2019 committee, and ten tons of teak came home by sea to roof the hall; the classrooms, the mosque wall, the burial platform and the school\u2019s computers each carry a donor\u2019s name in the record.
Our Funds
Almost every building the Sangam holds was given, and the souvenir records each gift by name.
வகுப்பறை நன்கொடை
The way most of the school was built. Seven classrooms were raised on the upper floor at Rs 2.5 lakh each from donors approached in Dubai; two more were given by a former correspondent; others came from the family of a schoolmaster in his father's name.
வக்ஃப் நிலம்
The oldest form of giving here. Two and a half acres at Sooranur from the first president, eight and a half at Palakkadu, a house on Public Road — lands whose income has carried the madrasa for a century.
கௌதிய்யா அரபி மதரஸா
Quran, Hadith and Arabic grammar, taught since 1922. The Dawood endowment settled Rs 120 a year on religious teaching; the need is the same, only the figures have changed.
ஏழு லெப்பை ஜாமிஆ மஸ்ஜித்
A flood-protection compound wall at Rs 3.5 lakh, aluminium grilles at Rs 2 lakh, a covered platform at the burial ground at Rs 6.25 lakh — the mosque's needs are met by the muhalla, as they always have been.
மாணவர் உதவி
Cash awards to the students placed first, second and third in the tenth, eleventh and twelfth standards, and grants to students in need — given by the alumni association since 2022.
கல்லூரி
Two aims stand recorded in the centenary souvenir: to see the self-financed higher secondary school made government-aided, and to grow the Ghouthiyya schools into a college.
What Your Giving Does
Each of these is a sum actually given and actually spent, set down in the Sangam\u2019s centenary record.
How To Give
The souvenir records each gift against a name and a sum — the practice this page continues.
The Sangam hall stands on Therkku Theru (South Street), Nagore 611 002. Please confirm current arrangements there.
The oldest habit of this muhalla. The first president endowed 2½ acres at Sooranur; M. S. Noor Muhammad Marakayar began a standing Rs 50 a month for education on 1 January 1947.
Seven classrooms were raised at Rs 2.5 lakh each between 2009 and 2013, from donors the correspondent travelled to Dubai at his own expense to meet.
In May 1982 the Sangam had Rs 100 in hand. A door-to-door drive through the muhalla raised about Rs 6,000 in two days.
Transparency
The Sangam is governed by a general body that elects its executive committee, and has been since 1922. Thirty-one office bearers hold it today, with three mutawallis over the mosque and the endowments.
Sadaqah
“இயன்றதை செய்வோம் இல்லாதவர்க்கே”
“Let us do what we can, for those who have not” — the motto of the Sangam
