en English Religious festivals Moving on up! : Moving On Up : Culture :Religious festivals Religious festivals Pam Smith Kathryn ForsterSimon Nieder Religious festival Culture Important celebrations for Jews Shabbat - Sabbath Rosh Hashanah - Jewish New Year Yom Kippur - Jewish Holiday Succot / Sukkot Shemini Atzeret Chanukah / Hanukah - Jewish Festival of Light Purim Passover / Pesach - Jewish festival Shavuot - Feast of Weeks Jewish festivals...what now? Gurpurabs - Sikh festivals and holy days Birthday of Guru Gobind Singh Sahib Maghi (Mela Muktsar or party at Muktsar) Hola Mohalla Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev Sahib First Parkash Guru Granth Sahib Celebrating the Guru Granth Sahib Diwali - Festival of Lights Celebrating Guru Nanak Jayanthi Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib Sikh festivals...what now? The festivals that Muslims celebrate Eid Ul Adha - Pilgrimage festival Al Hijrah - New Year for Muslims Yaum Ashooraa Mawlid Al Nabi - The Prophet's Birthday Lailat al-Miraj Beginning of Ramadan and fasting Lailat al- Qadr Shab-e-Baraat Eid Ul Fitr - the end of Ramadan Muslim festivals...what now? Important festivals for Hindus Pongal or Makarsankranti - Great Indian Thanksgiving! Vasant Panchami or Saraswati Puja- celebrating Goddess Saraswati Mahashivaratri Holi - Spring Festival of Colours Hindu New Year Ramanavami Hanuman Jayanti - worship of the Monkey God Raksha Bandhan Janmashtami - Krishna Jayanti Ganesh Chaturthi Navaratri Dussera Divali Hindu festivals...what now? Christian festivals Epiphany Christmas Lent Mothering Sunday Palm Sunday Maundy Thursday Good Friday Easter Sunday Ascension Day Pentecost - Whitsun All Saints' Day - Hallowmas Advent Sunday Christmas Day Christian festivals...what now? Important celebrations for Buddhists Mahayana is New Year Parinirvana - Nirvana day Losar (start) Magha Puja Therevada New Year Wesak or Buddha day Asala Puja - Dharma Day Bodhi Day Buddhist festivals... what now? Jewish festivals Jewish festivals Sikh festivals Sikh festivals Muslim festivals Muslim festivals Hindu festivals Hindu festivals Christian festivals Christian festivals Buddhist festivals Buddhist festivals XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition) Level Double-A Conformance to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 text/html HTML 2005-06-14T12:58:20Z Created 2011-01-19T11:24:00Z Modified