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Parsi New Year 2018: Date, Significance, Celebrations And Feast During Pateti

  • Writer: Viral Noax
    Viral Noax
  • Aug 14, 2018
  • 3 min read

Parsi society celebrating its new year

Our sacraments are on its own, which still hold its religion and its related customs. Parsi New Year, Parsi society celebrates New Year in August every year according to its social tradition, in the month of August every year is the confluence of faith, glee, excitement and enthusiasm for the Parsi society. This year, the Parsi New Year, also called ‘Navroz’, will be celebrated on August 17, 2018 with great fervor.

PARSI HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018

PARSI HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018


Parsi New Year (Shahan Shahi)

People of Parsi religion celebrate this festival with great Dhom Dham on the first day of the first month of the Parsi Almanac in the world. In India, people of Zoroastrianism celebrate according to the monarchy calendar, which means that the festival of New Year comes in the months ahead of the year.

Parsi New Year only remains connected to people related to Parsi religion, and this celebration really reflects annual renewal of all things in the universe. According to folk tales, the prophet Zarathushtar had made this festival and this festival still celebrates as a very important festival in most parts of Maharashtra.

Celebrate like this Parsi New Year

The devotees of Parsi religion start preparing for the festival to celebrate this festival, all the devotees make cleanliness of their homes, business premises and their surroundings cleaner than ever. Do special decorations inside and outside the house. In particular, the main door of the house is decorated with flowers and chalk powders, beautiful and very beautiful to welcome the guests, these decorations include the main scenic natural scenes. To welcome guests, rose water is sprinkled on them. Often, people donate to the poor.

Parsi New Year-The temples go after breakfast

After breakfast in the morning, the tradition of going to the fire temple is in itself as it connects the entire festival together. After breakfast, people go to the temple together to pray for the advancement of the family and society and give new year greetings to each other. The biggest thing of this festival is that people think about their good and bad deeds during this time and take a resolve to focus on positive prospects for the coming year and to walk. After the meeting and the good luck, the celebration begins and people enjoy various special diet like mung dal, casserole and boats.

PARSI HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018

PARSI HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018


Parsi New Year 2018: Date, Significance, Celebrations And Feast During Pateti

Today the New Year is being celebrated for the Parsi community living in India. In August, the Parsi society is celebrated as New Year. This festival is being celebrated on August 17, 2018 this year. Parsi society This new year is called Navroj.

Why is Navaroj celebrated in India in August month? By the way, the second Parsi Community of the whole world is celebrated on March 21. The Navaros celebrate the memory of Jamshed of Persia, who founded the Parsi Calendar. On this day, the people of the Parsi family wear new clothes and go to the fireplace of their worship site and after each prayer the New Year greetings. At the same time, cleanliness of the house is done outside the house, Rangoli is made and many types of dish are also made.

In fact, in the seventh century when a campaign for conversion to Iran came, many Parsis of that changed their religion, but many Parsis, who were not approved to change this religion, they left India and returned to India. And on the same earth began to preserve their sacraments.

Parsi communities settled in India and Pakistan celebrate the new year in August after 200 days of Parsis settled in other countries of the world. Most Parsi communities in India are inhabited in Gujarat and Maharashtra, due to this, this festival is celebrated with loud noise.

New Year is celebrated with great enthusiasm in the Parsi community. In Parsi religion it is known as Khordad Sal. In Parsis 1 year is 360 days and the rest will be left for 5 days to remember their ancestors as a saga. It is celebrated exactly 5 days before the end of the year.

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