A religious festival is a time of special importance marked by adherents to that religion. Religious festivals are commonly celebrated on recurring cycles in a calendar year or lunar calendar. The sci
Celebration of the Hindu festival of Holi at Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple in Utah, United States
Buddhist festival of Magha Puja celebration held in Thailand.
Roman men thought to be participating in the Compitalia festival, in a wall painting from Pompeii
A fragment of the Fasti Praenestini for April (Aprilis), with the festivals of Vinalia (VIN) and Robigalia (ROB) marked in capital letters
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the Bible and the teachings of Jesus. The Gospels state that Jesus is the Son of God and rose from the dead after his crucifixion, whose com
Religious festival
…in a calendar year or lunar calendar. The science of religious rites and festivals is known as heortology. Within the Evangelical Lutheran branch of Christianity, "festival" is part of the ranking of feast days in the liturgical kalendar. Festivals (feriae) were an important part of Roman religious life during…
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, a holy place of Christianity
The Cenacle on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, claimed to be the location of the Last Supper and Pentecost
A folio from Papyrus 46, an early-3rd-century collection of Pauline epistles
The 7th-century Khor Virap monastery in the shadow of Mount Ararat; Armenia was the first state to adopt Christianity as the state religion in the early 4th century AD.