religious festival
Holy day observance
A religious festival is a celebration or observance marking a significant event, season, or figure within a faith tradition.
Examples include Christmas, Diwali, Passover, Eid, and Hanukkah.
Religious festivals typically involve special rituals, prayers, gatherings, feasting or fasting, and often public holidays: The town closes down for the religious festival.
- EasterResurrection commemoration day
- holy daySacred date for worship
- feast daySaint's commemorative holiday
- VesakBuddhist commemoration day
- All Saints' DayFeast commemorating all saints
Hajj · pilgrimage site · Diwali · Nowruz · new year blessing · baptism · communion · Hanukkah · Eid al-Fitr · ritual fasting · Passover · harvest · Yom Kippur · Purim · lunar calendar · Corpus Christi · Sukkot · Carnival
- festivalsfestivals, carnival, carnivals, Carnival, fairs
- religionChristianity, Islam, beliefs, Judaism, Hinduism
- church activitiesSunday school, Bible study, church camp, church socials, church picnic
- North African IslamIslam, Sunni Islam, Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha
- Roman religionJupiter, Mars, Venus, Apollo, Neptune
- Mawlidrecitations, praise songs, devotional music, communal prayers, processions
religious festivalcivic holiday
City-declared day off
national holiday · civic celebration · public holiday · bank holiday · federal holiday
religious festivalfuneral rite
Death ceremony customs
memorial service · fast day · vigil · wake · shiva