Religious Studies

Marks the end of Sukkot (work prohibited)

Celebrates the conclusion of the annual cycle of public Torah readings and the beginning of a new cycle (work is prohibited)

Festival of Lights. This date is amavasya—when puja is offered to Maha Lakshmi

This Bahá'í holiday celebrates the birth of the Bab, one of the founders of the Bahá'í Faith.

Celebrates the birth of Bahá’u’lláh, the founder of the Bahá’í Faith

Honors all of the saints known and unknown

Festival honoring endings, beginnings and the dead

Day of prayer for the dead, particularly but not exclusively one’s relatives

Celebrates the birth of the founder of Sikhism and the first of the Sikh Gurus

This Bahá'í holiday is when Bahá'ís celebrate the appointment of `Abdu'l-Bahá as the Centre of Baha'u'llah's Covenant.

A Bahá'í holy day that commemorates the death of Abbas Effendi, known as Abdu'l-Baha, in 1921 in Haifa, Palestine (now Israel).