Bahá'í calendar

The Baha'i calendar, named after the religion of Bahai, is a solar calendar with 19 months with 19 days plus four additional days and a leap day inserted when needed.

The year begins in the Bahai calendar with the Spring Day and night are equally determined in accordance with the ancient Iranian calendar. The calendar begins at sunset of the preceding sunny day.

The year 1 of the Baha'i Era ( abbreviated BE) is the year 1844/1845 of the Gregorian calendar (starting on March 21, 1844).

The Bab (1819-1850), the founder of the religion Babism, has described the Badi (Arabic: " wonderful, unique " ) or Bab calendar in the Kitab -i - Asma (Arabic " Book of Names "). Baha'u'llah, the founder of the Baha'i religion, confirmed this calendar, and led in the Kitab -i -Aqdas one the modifications described below.

Weekdays

Months

For the Shiites, there is a prayer that is usually spoken during the fasting month of Ramadan. This God is called by his name. Each of the 19 invocations revolves around one of his names. The Bab took these names in the same order for the 19 months of his calendar and certain in the Persian Bayan the month of Ala as a month of fasting and Naw- Ruz ( New Year ) as its end. However, he determined the course of four or five additional days not explicitly. Baha'u'llah certain that the Registered Deferred days should precede the fasting month. At the beginning of each month the Bahai keep from the Nineteen Day Feast, which consists of three parts: A devotion to the writings of the Bab, Baha'u'llah and Abdu'l -Baha are used, a consulting and a social part. In Arabic Bayan the Bab called on the faithful to meet every 19 days to prove to each other hospitality and friendship. Bahá'u'lláh confirmed this and donated in the Kitab -i -Aqdas, the Nineteen Day Feast.

Fixed, Anniversaries and Lent

Baha'u'llah led the Ridvanfest, the declaration of the Bab and Baha'u'llah and the Bab birthdays as a Solid. During his lifetime, Bahá'u'lláh (1817-1892) was celebrated the anniversary of the martyrdom of the Bab as a holiday. According led Abdu'l-Baha, the head of the Baha'i faith from 1892 to 1921, the commemoration of the passing of Bahá'u'lláh one. With nine of the Bab and Baha'u'llah Naw- Ruz related commemorations and is followed by the Bahai rest from work, being within the Ridvan hard time the first (April 21 ), ninth ( April 29) and twelfth ( second May) day shall be observed. For the day of birth and passing away of Abdu'l-Baha and the date of the covenant, however, no rest from work is required.

19 - and 361 - year cycles

In the Baha'i calendar, there is a cycle of 19 years with the name Vahid (Arabic: " unity," the unity of God versinnbildlichend, with the word Vahid after Abdschad system the numerical value of 19 has ) and a super-cycle with 361 (19 × 19 ) years called Kull -i - Shay (Arabic: " all things," numerical value 361 Abdschad ). The ninth Vahid in the first Kull -i - Shay began in 1996. The second Kull -i - Shay began in 2205th The 19 years correspond to the Metonic cycle, after 235 lunar months correspond almost exactly 19 solar years.

The years in Vahid: