Chaharshanbe Suri

Jumping over bonfires to leave the year's ills behind.

Heritage · day to keep · variable · festival

Chaharshanbe Suri

Jumping over bonfires to leave the year's ills behind.

Layers

Chaharshanbe Suri · variable · eve of the last Wednesday before Nowruz

Kept byPersian-speaking communitiesAzerbaijani Turkic communitiesKurdish communitiesLur and Bakhtiari communitiesBaluch communitiesGilaki and Mazandarani communitiesZoroastrian communities

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Chaharshanbe Suri

چهارشنبه‌سوری

Kind: festival
Calendar: variable
Date: eve of the last Wednesday before Nowruz

eve of the last Wednesday before Nowruz

secondary

Dates given by the calendar that fixes them; movable days move with it.

The year

21 fixed-date days · this one in red

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Chaharshanbe Suri moves with its calendar (variable), so it has no fixed place on this strip.

Fixed-date days on the strip; movable days are listed by their own calendar.

Other days in the variable calendar

Set each year (October or November)

Birth of the Bábreligious

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Set each year (October or November)

Birth of Bahá’u’lláhreligious

Open

Set each year by the priesthood

Dehwa Rabba (Mandaean new year)religious

Open

Set each year by the priesthood

Parwanaya (Panja)religious

Open

Set each year by the priesthood

Dehwa Haninareligious

Open

Set by the community (winter); the calendars differ

Zartosht no-Disoreligious

Open

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