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A religious festival is a time of special importance marked by adherents to that religion. Religious festivals are commonly celebrated on reoccurring cycles in a calendar year or lunar calendar. This means that, because ancient calendars were not hugely accurate, the exact date of the festival changes each year. According to the Gregorian calendar, the calendar year begins on January 1 and ends on December 31. ...
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Ancient Roman religious festivals
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Buddhist religious festivals See Category:Buddhist festivals Asalha Puja (known as Asanha Puja in Thailand) is a Theravada Buddhist festival which typically takes place in July, on the fifteenth day of the waxing moon of the eighth lunar month. ...
Kathina is a Buddhist festival which comes at the end of Vassa, the three-month rainy season retreat for Theravada Buddhists. ...
Pavarana is a Buddhist holy day celebrated on the full moon of the eleventh lunar month. ...
Uposatha days are times of renewed dedication to Dhamma practice, observed by both lay people and monastics throughout the world of Theravada Buddhism. ...
Vassa (Thai พรรษา, pansa or phansaa), also called Rains Retreat, is the traditional retreat during the rainy season lasting for three lunar months from July to October. ...
Christian religious festivals For Christian festivals see Christian year and liturgical year, Category:Christian festivals A Christian is a follower of Jesus Christ, believing him to be the Son of God and the savior of human souls from sin and death. ...
The liturgical year, also known as the Christian year, consists of the cycle of liturgical seasons in some Christian churches which determines when Feasts, Memorials, Commemorations, and Solemnities are to be observed and which portions of Scripture are to be read. ...
The liturgical year, also known as the Christian year, consists of the cycle of liturgical seasons in some Christian churches which determines when Feasts, Memorials, Commemorations, and Solemnities are to be observed and which portions of Scripture are to be read. ...
Hindu religious festivals See Category:Hindu festivals Image File history File links The breaking of the Dahi Handi, during the festival of w:Gokulashtami in Hinduism. ...
Image File history File links The breaking of the Dahi Handi, during the festival of w:Gokulashtami in Hinduism. ...
Krishna Janmaashtami, also known as Krishnaashtami, Gokulaashtami, Srikrishna Jayanti, Sree Jayanthi or sometimes merely as Janmaashtami, is a Hindu festival celebrating the birth of Krishna, the eighth avatar (incarnation) of Vishnu. ...
Hindu festivals include: This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Diwali (also called Deepavali) is a major Hindu festival. ...
Celebration of Holi Holi (Hindi: होली) or Phagwah (Bhojpuri) is an annual Hindu spring festival, predominantly celebrated in North India and Nepal. ...
Navratri, Navaratri or Navaratra is a Hindu festival of worship and dance. ...
Ganesh Chaturthi is the birth anniversary of Lord Ganesha. ...
Raksha bandhan or Rakhi is a Hindu festival to signify and extend the brother-sister relationship. ...
Krishna Janmaashtami, also known as Krishnaashtami, Gokulaashtami, Srikrishna Jayanti, Sree Jayanthi or sometimes merely as Janmaashtami, is a Hindu festival celebrating the birth of Krishna, the eighth avatar (incarnation) of Vishnu. ...
Dussehra (also transliterated as Dasara) or Vijaya Dasami is an important Hindu festival. ...
Dasara, also called Navaratri, is among the most important festivals celebrated in Southern India. ...
Onam ഓണം, the foremost festival among the cultural repertoire of Malayalees, falls in the harvest season of August- September. ...
Pongal (பொஙà¯à®•à®²à¯ in Tamil), also called Sankranti in Karnataka (ಸ೦ಕà³à²°à²¾à³¦à²¤à²¿ in Kannada), is an Indian harvest and a thanksgiving festival. ...
Vijayadashami is a festival celebrated across India. ...
Islamic religious festivals See Category:Islamic festivals, Islamic calendar The Islamic calendar or Muslim calendar (also called Hijri calendar, Arabic التقويم الهجري) is the calendar used to date events in many predominantly Muslim countries, and used by Muslims everywhere to determine the proper day on which to celebrate Islamic holy days. ...
Islamic religious festivals include: For other uses, including people named Islam, see Islam (disambiguation). ...
In muslim communities, Eid (Arabic: عيد ) is the name of two Islamic festivals: Eid ul-Fitr, marking the end of the month-long fast of Ramadan, held on the first day of Shawwal. ...
For the Canaanite and Ugaritic mother-goddess, please see Asherah. ...
Arbaeen (اربعين, Arabic forty) is a Shia religious holiday that occurs forty days after Aashura, the commemoration of the martyrdom by beheading of Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad. ...
Eid ul-Adha (Arabic: عيد الأضØÙ‰) occurs on the tenth day of the Islamic month of Dhul Hijja. ...
Eid ul-Fitr (Arabic: عيد الÙطر), often abbreviated as simply Eid, is an Islamic holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting. ...
Mawlid, Mawlid an-Nabi or Milad al-Nabi (Arabic: ) is the celebration of the birthday of Muhammad, the final prophet of Islam; also known as The Seal of the Prophets. Sunni Muslims celebrate this day on the 12th of Rabi-ul-Awwal in the Islamic calendar; whereas Twelver Shia...
Messianic Jewish religious festivals See articles at Messianic Judaism It has been suggested that Messianic Religious Practices be merged into this article or section. ...
'Messianic Judaism derives most of its liturgical influences directly from Judaism, though it adds additional elements from the Christian tradition, since most people just call it Christianity anyway. Appointed times, called mo'edim, follow the standard Jewish liturgical calendar, though additional hermenuetical applications are derived in light of the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.
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Jewish religious festivals See articles at Jewish holidays, Ancient Jewish Festivals and Category:Jewish holy days. Jewish holiday, (or Yom Tom or chag or taanit in Hebrew) is a day that is holy to the Jewish people according to Judaism and is usually derived from the Hebrew Bible, specifically the Torah, and in some cases established by the rabbis in later eras. ...
This entry incorporates text from the public domain Eastons Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897. ...
Jewish holiday, (or Yom Tov or chag or ta'anit in Hebrew) is a day that is holy to the Jewish people according to Judaism and is usually derived from the Hebrew Bible, specifically the Torah, and in some cases established by the rabbis in later eras. The holidays always occur on the Jewish calendar only. There are a number of festival days, fast days and days of remembrance, collectively known as "Jewish holidays" in English, ("Yamim Tovim" or "chagim" in Hebrew). Hebrew (עִבְרִית ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Jewish communities around the world. ...
Jews (Hebrew: יהודי×, Yehudim) are followers of Judaism or, more generally, members of the Jewish people (also known as the Jewish nation, or the Children of Israel), an ethno-religious group descended from the ancient Israelites and converts who joined their religion. ...
Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people with around 15 million followers as of 2006. ...
11th century manuscript of the Hebrew Bible with Targum This article discusses usage of the term Hebrew Bible. For the article on the Hebrew Bible itself, see Tanakh. ...
Torah () is a Hebrew word meaning teaching, instruction, or law. It is the central and most important document of Judaism revered by Jews through the ages. ...
Rabbi (Classical Hebrew רִבִּי ribbī;; modern Ashkenazi and Israeli רַבִּי rabbī) in Judaism, means teacher, or more literally great one. The word Rabbi is derived from the Hebrew root-word RaV, which in biblical Hebrew means great or distinguished, (in knowledge). In the ancient Judean schools (and among Sefaradim today) the sages...
This figure, in a detail of a medieval Hebrew calendar, reminded Jews of the palm branches ( Lulav) and the citron ( Etrog) to be brought to the synagogue at the end of sukkot, closing the solemn convocations of the calendar in autumn. ...
The word holiday has related but different meanings in English-speaking countries. ...
Hebrew (עִבְרִית ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Jewish communities around the world. ...
The 2006 Sinulog festival in the Philippines Renaissance festival A festival or fest is an event, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community. ...
External links - interfaithcalendar.org
- The Feasts of Adonai A book detailing the history and celebration of Bilbical festivals.
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