Gloria Dei Cantores, a 46-member choir that sang an a-cappella program at Town Hall on Thursday evening, might seem an improbable choice for an evening's secular entertainment.

It is thought that as a reward for this support the Shah ensured more religious instruction in state schools, tightened control of cinemas and other offensive secular entertainment during Moharram.

The secular general entertainment ran from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Another evolution, similar to that from courtly entertainment to common practice, was the transition from religious ritual to secular entertainment, such as happened during the Goryeo dynasty with the Narye festival.

At that time, gospel music was considered sacred music and not to be performed as secular entertainment.

However, as Mbacké lies beyond Touba's sacred precincts, it fulfills certain auxiliary functions, such as public administration and secular entertainment, forbidden in that holy city.

Religious ceremonies and religious and secular entertainment both occurred nightly through January 6.

Likewise the colonies banned many secular entertainments, such as games of chance, maypoles, and drama, on moral grounds.

They also run some secular general entertainment a few hours daily (except on Sundays).

Natun jatra aimed entirely at secular entertainment by enacting pseudo-mythological tales with emphasis on the human aspects (such as vidyasundar) but its structure was similar to Krishna jatra.