The village of Ndiassane (or N'Diâsâne), the spiritual capital of the Qadiriyya in Senegal (a Sufi brotherhood), a sanctuary of Islam founded between 1883 and 1884 by Sheikh Bouh Kounta, has become, nowadays, one of the most important places of pilgrimage for the followers of the Ahloul Kountiyou community of Senegal and the West African sub-region. With thousands of faithful (talibés) who converge there annually, coming from all over the world (Mali, Niger, Chad, Mauritania, Burkina Faso), to commemorate, in religious fervor and according to the tradition of the Qadiriyya, the eighth day (baptism) of the birth of the Seal of the Prophets, Muhammad (PBUH).

Capital of the Senegalese Qadiriyya, the religious city is located in the northwest of Senegal, in the ancient kingdom of Cayor, not far from the religious city of Tivaouane-la-Pieuse, in the Thiès region. Ndiassane remains, in fact, the stronghold of the Kountiyous, descendants of Sheikh Bouna Kounta who left in 1800 the religious village of Bolonoir, located near Timbuktu, in Mali on the orders of his brother to come and settle in Senegal, with the authorization of the Damel of the time, Amari Ngoné Ndella. Thus, the one who will be the founder of the Ahloul Kountiyou settled, first, in the locality of Nguiguiss and then, under the reign of Birima Fatma Thioub, founded the village of Ndankh Mécké, in the heart of Cayor. Cheikh Bouna Kounta and his family remained in this village until 1883, when his grandson, Cheikh Bouh Kounta, came to settle in Ndiassane. A village which, with the administrative division that took place after independence, became a local authority in the department of Tivaouane, more precisely in the rural community of Chérif Lo.

Today, Ndiassane has become one of the most important pilgrimage sites for followers of the Khadre brotherhood from Senegal and the West African sub-region. The faithful converge there annually to celebrate with their guide the eighth day of the birth of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

Far from being fortuitous, the choice of the eighth day would result from the common will of Sheikh Al Seydi El-Hadji Maodo Malick SY of Tivaouane and Ckeikh Bouh Kounta of the Khadre community, to proceed in such a way as to avoid the organization of a Gamou on the same day due to the proximity of the two religious cities, about 5 km apart. The first edition of the celebration of the birth of the Prophet by the Kountiyou family would date back to 1901, under the direction of Sheikh Abdou Mouhammad Kounta. Thus, a tradition was established that the descendants of the holy man will make it their duty to perpetuate to the point of giving it today a sub-regional, even international dimension. Since Ndiassane receives each year thousands of pilgrims from the entire West African sub-region and mainly from neighboring Mali, but also faithful from Europe and the United States. The very strong presence of Malian pilgrims can be explained, we are told, by the Malian origins of the kountiyous.