Naw-Ruz (New Day)
Happy New Year -- a day of rest -- to people of the Bahai faith.
The Bahai people have their own calendar consisting of nineteen months of ninetneen days plus a couple of extra days between the eighteenth and nineteenth months. They have however adopted the Iranian custom of beginning the New Year in the spring equinox. The day begins at sunset rather than midnight, and the New Year celebrations are held during the evening of March 20th.
Adherents.com lists Bahai as one of the top 10 "international religious bodies." (The Catholic Church ranks first in this group of religious bodies that have at least 30 percent of their membership outside of the "core country," or the country with the largest membership).
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