Bahá'í Naw-Rúz

Culture of origin: Bahá’í · Cultural

Holiday sources: Bahá'í Faith · Iran

Naw-Rúz opens the Bahá'í year and is one of its holy days. In the Kitáb-i-Aqdas (1873) Bahá'u'lláh made it the first day of the year, the day the sun passes into Aries; today it is the day, reckoned from sunset to sunset in Tehran, that contains the moment of the March equinox. It comes straight after 'Alá', the month of the Bahá'í Fast.