Navroz

Navroz

Navroz

Navroz

Navroz is celebrated  in India on 16th August in India.‘Nav’= new and ‘Roz’= day, meaning ‘new day’ (in the Persian language)

 celebrated in March globally (as per the Iranian calendar), Navroz Arrives 200 days later in India and is celebrated in the month of August as the Parsis here follow the Shahenshahi calendar which doesn’t account for leap years.

Navroj is on the list of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of India.

Zoroastrianism:It is one of the earliest known monotheistic faiths, created over 3,500 years ago in ancient Iran by Prophet Zarathustra

It was th official religion of Persia from 650 BCE until the emergence of Islam in the 7th century. With the coming of Islam numerous Zoroastrians fled to India (Gujarat) and Pakistan, thus the nam Parsis (‘Parsi’ is Gujarati for Persian).

India has one of the largest single groups of Parsis (currently about 61000) in India. The world population is estimated at 2.6 million Zoroastrians. In India, Parsis are one of the notified minority communities

.Other new year:

Chaitra Shukla Pratipada(beginning of the new year of the Vedic (Hindu)calendar)

Gudi Padwa and Ugadi

Navreh(the lunar new year in Kashmir)

Sajibu Cheiraoba(celebrated by Meiteis (Manipur))

Cheti Chand(by Sindhis)

Losoong(Sikkimese new year)