Musapur

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Musapur
—  village  —
Coordinates
Country India
State Punjab
District(s) SBS Nagar,Nawan Shahr
Councellor (Village Chief) Baljit Kaur Kandola
Official languages Punjabi
Time zone IST (UTC+05:30)

Musapur is an agricultural village (pind) in the Nawanshahr district (Now known as 'Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar District') of Punjab in India.

Baba Sundar Das an influential parcharak (preacher) of Sikhism from Guru Nanak Dev Ji's time hailed from this village. A gurdwara stands at the site of his historic samaadh today. This Gurdwara has recently undergone a complete refurbishment and the opening ceremony was held in February 2008.

Gurdwara Nath Ji an influential parcharak (preacher) of Sikhism is also situated in musapur.

It is one village that have Sikh Temples on all four sides.

The main surname of the residents in this village is Kandola. There are also a number of people with the surnames Pooni, Gill, Joshi, Atwal, Bhambra, Chopra, Rall and Verma residing here. The surname Seyan is also believed to originate from this village.

Another sub caste 'Ladher'/'Banga'/'Mahey'/'Heer'/'Seniaray'/'Ghai'/'Guru' is also main in the village in Ravidasia[sechuled caste] community, as well as every other castes. The strength of SC community is more than 80% out of the total population of the village.There have five Gurudwaras named Gurudwara Baba Sunder Das Ji, Gurdwara Baba Nath Ji, Gurudwara Guru Ravidas Ji, Gurdwara Baba Shahidan, Gurdwara Durgiana Sahib, "Shiv Mandir" and a "Mata Mandir" where worshipped by all Hindus community, 'Balmik Mandir' for the Balmik community, situated at the residential area of the village. All the citizen of the village is celebrate all the functions, gurpurves, Shri Krishan Janamashtmi, Shivratri or other devotional programes from spirtual mind like as brother and sisters.

Famous Punjabi song writer Amarjit Musapuria And Famous Kabaddi Player "Sunny Kandola" also belongs to this village Other Famous person of this village is, Mrs. Baljit Kaur (Sarpanch), Sr. Surinder Pal Singh Kandola,Sr. Jaspal Singh Kandola (Ex.Chairman Of Coprorative Bank And Ex.Sarpanch) Sr. Jagjit Singh (Ex- DEO), Sh. Nirmal Singh North (Manager), Mr.Satnam Deepak Banga (AAO), Sr. Sohan Singh Pooni(Lambardar), Giani Ajit Singh (Panch), Baldev Musapuri (Ex. Circulation Manager Ajit News Paper)

There are one sports and welfare club also in musapur the name of the club is BHAI BACHITTER SINGH SPORTS AND WELFARE CLUB Club Members Names Are Shown Below

Jaswinder Singh (President), Gurwinder Singh Gindi (Vice-President), Tarspal Singh (Secretary),Dharmjeet Singh Kandola (Joint Secretary), Jagdeep Singh Deepa (Cashier), Kuldeep Singh (Adviser) All Other Members Name - Shiv Kumar Bassi, Parminder Jeet Singh, Sardool Singh Shera, Ýadwinder Śingh Binda, Gurwinder Singh Ginda, Rajinder Kumar, Sukhjeevan Singh, Kulwant Singh, Kuljit Singh Boney, Maninder Singh

Musapur is close to both cities of Banga and Nawanshahr, and is near to the villages of Rasoolpur, Mungowal, Kahma,Kariha, Bhangalan, Lodhi Pur, Chahal Khurad and Karnana.