The dates of almost all Buddhist festivals are lunar based, with the full moon in each month marking key events important to Buddhists.
Durga Puja is one of the largest Hindu festivals that involves worship of Goddess Durga ...
Sukkot is also known as Succoth, Sukkos, Feast of Booths or Feast of Tabernacles
Marks the end of the annual cycle of public Torah readings, and the beginning of a new ...
Celebrations revolve around the triumph of good over evil, purity over impurity, light ...
Pope Boniface IV dedicated the day as a holiday to honour the Blessed Virgin Mary and all ...
Falls on the full moon day of the Kartik month of the Hindu calendar. It is celebrated ...
Punjab. Guru Teg Bahadur was the ninth of ten Gurus (Prophets) of the Sikh religion
It is a day that celebrates the belief that Mary, mother of Jesus, was preserved from ...
Celebrates the arrival of the Bo tree sapling in Anuradhapura, brought by Ashoka's ...
December 26th is the Feast of St. Stephen in Western Christianity. It is observed as a ...
The Orthodox Church recognises January 7th as the day that Jesus was born
Isra and Mi'raj marks the Night Journey from Mecca to Jerusalem and the ascent into heaven
Thaipusam is celebrated in honour of Lord Subramaniam, also known as Lord Murugan
Guru Ravidas was a north Indian mystic in the 15th century
Shortly after Buddha began his teachings, 1250 monks gathered to hear Buddha preach.
According to Hindu mythology, Shivaratri symbolizes the wedding day of Lord Shiva.
Purim remembers the deliverance of the Jewish people from a plot to destroy them as ...
Originally a harvest and fertility festival, Holi also commemorates a legend from Hindu ...
Public holiday for ongoing celebrations to mark Eid Al Fitr
Celebrates the birth of Lord Rama to King Dasharatha of Ayodhya celebrated on the ninth ...
Passover (Pesach), is an eight day Jewish holiday that remembers the exodus of the ...
Easter Sunday is the most important date in the Christian church. In the bible, it is the ...
Easter is the most significant religious holiday for the world's roughly 300 million ...
Marks three key events in Buddhas life - his birthday, the enlightenment and his ...
This day observes the departure of Jesus from earth after his resurrection. It is perhaps ...
Shavuot is one of the three Biblical pilgrimage festivals. Also known as the Feast of ...
Eid al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice is the most important feast in the Muslim calendar. ...
Commemorates the coming of the Holy Spirit in the form of flames to the Apostles.
Marks Islamic New Year and the Prophet's journey from Mecca to Medina in 622AD.
Ashura is the 10th day of Muharram in the Islamic calendar and marks the climax of the ...
Marks the day when the Lord Buddha delivered his first sermon in India over 2500 years ago
Marks the start of the three month period when Monks have to stay in the one place
Raksha Bandhan is a Hindu festival that celebrates the love and duty between brothers and ...
The Feast of the Assumption is the principal feast of the Blessed Virgin, the mother of ...
The birthday of Lord Krishna, the reincarnation of Lord Vishnu who gave the message of ...
The Jewish Holiday of Rosh Hashanah is generally known as the New Year' s Day of the ...