Thamil Isai Kalaamanram (Tamil: தமிழ் இசை கலாமன்றம்) (TIKM) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting carnatic music and bharathanatyam dance in Ontario, Canada, headquartered in Toronto. Founded in 1992, this Toronto-based organization has grown to become the widely accepted conservatory of South Indian music and dance, servicing over 160 classical music teachers in Canada.
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Knox Presbyterian Church is located at 4156 Sheppard Avenue East in the Agincourt neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
It was formed by former members of the "Historic" Knox Presbyterian Church after that Presbyterian congregation voted 136-106 in 1925 to join the United Church of Canada.
The new congregation was initially assisted by the Minister and Elders of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church Scarborough, but has also grown over the years; their 1950s extension is named the "John Forbes Hall" after the Minister of that era.
Recent ministers of this church include: Rev. Dr. Robert P Carter, Rev Gordon Hastings, Reverends Dr H. Glen and Joyce Davis, Dr. Jeff Loach, now the regional director of the Canadian Bible Society. Interim Moderator Rev. Dr. Ian Clark served in 2004, and returned for 2006-07, and led the Induction Service on July 29, 2007 for Rev. Harry J. Bradley.
There is great co-operation between the two Knox Churches, as well as other congregations in the Agincourt area with joint ministerials, and social ministries and spiritual programmes such as Alpha.
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The Knox United Church, began as Knox Presbyterian Church in Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in a wood-frame church built in 1848, the result of the Church of Scotland disruption, that led to the formation of the Presbyterian Church of Canada in Connection with the Free Church of Scotland.
Elder William Clarke, Sr., was one of the group who withdrew from the "Auld Kirk" at the Synod Meeting held in Kingston, Canada West in July, 1844; his Minister, Rev. James George, and much of the Presbyterian Church at Scarborough in Connection with the Church of Scotland remained.
The original Knox Congregation met first with another congregation located in York Mills, until settling in the developing Scarborough Township village of Agincourt.
40 local residents became the first communicants of Knox Presbyterian Church, originally known as "Knox's Church Scarboro".
In 1853, it became the centre of the "Scarborough Township Pastoral Charge", along with Melville in West Hill, Zion Church, Cedar Grove, in Markham Township, Chalmers Church, York Town Line, and other occasional preaching points.
By 1883, Knox Church had grown to become a single-point charge.
With a growing membership, the current brick church was built in 1872.
This church still stands at the corner of Sheppard Avenue East and Midland Avenue, surrounded by a large cemetery containing many early settlers, and a number of prominent Church leaders.
In 1925, this Presbyterian congregation voted 136–106 to be part of the new United Church of Canada. A number of members left to form a "Continuing" Knox Presbyterian Church, now located nearby at 4156 Sheppard Avenue East.
The Christian Education Centre was added in the 1950s.
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Agincourt GO Station is a GO Transit railway station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Stouffville line station serves the Agincourt neighbourhood of the former suburb of Scarborough.
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Agincourt Collegiate Institute, formerly known as Agincourt High School and Agincourt Continuation School is a secondary school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in Agincourt, a neighbourhood in the former suburb of Scarborough. It was owned and operated by the Scarborough Board of Education prior to it being amalgamated into the Toronto District School Board in 1998.
A.C.I. is one of the oldest surviving secondary high schools in the former Scarborough in the north, the other being R. H. King Academy in the south.
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Agincourt Mall is a shopping mall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located at the northwest corner of Kennedy Road and Sheppard Avenue, in the Tam O'Shanter – Sullivan neighbourhood of northeastern Toronto. It is named for the adjacent historic village and current Toronto neighbourhood of Agincourt.
See also
Carnatic music Bharatanatyam Mridangam Veena Violin