Festivals of US-Christmas-Biggest Festival of USA

USA is a land of diversity and is comprised of number of individual states which when combined together form the mighty United States of America. So there are a lot of festivals celebrated in USA. Festivals of US belong to every religion and every event is celebrated as festival in USA. USA is a large country in Area so it has large number of variations in culture and there are many festivals celebrated in US. Each individual state like california has it's own festivals which comes under regional festivals of California. Christmas is the major festival of US. Celebrating Christmas in USis treat for everyone. During Christmas each and every street of USA is glittering like jem glittering in a jewellers shop so celebrating Christmas in USA is dream for every tourist. This blog throws light on probably each and every festival of US whether it is regional festival of it's individual states or celebrated in whole US as a national festival and there is no doubt that Christmas is the biggest festival of USA and is also a major world festival.

Festivals of USA:

Christmas : 25th December every year: Christmas in USA is celebrated with great zeal and pomp every one is in festive mood. Christmas celebrations in USA start two months before the 25th of december and celebrations for christmas in USA continues upto New Year which falls just a week after the christmas every year. people of US celebrate christmas from their heart and majority of the institutes, colleges, Software companies go on vacations for full month of December. Many people of USA celebrate Christmas in US itself, Casinos and disco's are all jam packed on Christmas Eve and people in USA enjoy a lot during peak christmas season. Many people of US go on a world tour in order to celebrate their Christmas Vacations. actually Christmas in US is fun and excitement in itself when people enjoy their shopping even in chilly conditions and enjoy a king sized turkey on eve of Christmas. Wines and whisky, beers, Champagne can be seen all around during the Christmas Season in USA. People of USA enjoy full month in Restaurants, Gardens, Tourist Places like Grand Canyon . Whole USA is in Festive mood during the christmas Season. Christmas is celebrated as birth anniversary of Jesus Christ who is the founder of Christanity and Christanity is largest Religion of whole worls and hence Christmas is the biggest festival of world . People of US celebrate christmas in US by gowing to Church on the christmas Eve and offering prayers to the almighty.

Christmas celebrations in US continues till the New Year Eve and hence all the offices are on holidays for almost full december. While reading the blog you can imagine that in this time of year US is on Vacations and in festive mood.

Major Indian Festivals- Diwali, Durga Puja, Christmas

India is land of diversity and is a true secular state. people of indian nationality belong to various religions including Hinduism, Islam, Christanity, Sikhism, Budhism, Jainism, Zoroastian however Hinduism is the major religion in India as ~ 80% of population consists of hindu's whick live in harmony along wiith Muslims, Sikhs, Isaai's(Christians) and jains. Hence there are lot of festivals celebrated in India with great pomp and show.

However major Indian Festivals consists of following Festivals:
Diwali (Biggest Indian Festival)
Dussehra or Vijay Dashmi
Raksha Bandhan
Maha Shivratri
Durga Puja
Christmas
Mahavir Jayanti
Eid UL Fitr
Ramzan
Good Friday
Krishan Janamashtmi
Holi
Bakra Eid
Guru Nanak Birthday Jayanti
Guru Teg Bahadur Birthday Jayanti
Baisakhi

Dividing Major Indian Festivals according to the months in an year will help us as we all will become familiar with the time of year in which they occur:

Major Indian Festivals in month of January :

1. Makar Sakranti
2. Lohri - (regional festival of punjab)-13th january
3. Eid ul Fitr
4. Pongal(regional Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh)
5. Vasant Panchami (Regional - North India & West Bengal) - 23rd January
6. Bikaner Festival - Date varies according to local calendar - (regional festival of Rajasthan)

Major Indian Festivals in month of Febuary:

1. Mahashivaratri - Date varies every year - (celebrated all over India)
2. Desert Festival - Date varies according to local calendar - (Regional festival of Jaisalmer-3 Day long)
3. Goa Carnival - Date varies according to local calendar - (regional festival of Goa)

Major Indian Festivals in month of March:

1. Holi - Date varies every year - (celebrated all over India)
2. Ramanavmi - 27th march - (celebrated all over India)
3. Eid Ul Zuha
4. Gangaur- Date varies according to local calendar - (regional festival of Rajasthan)
5. Elephant Festival - Date varies according to local calendar - (regional festival of Rajasthan)

Major Indian Festivals in month of April:

1. Good Friday -13-april - (celebrated all over India)
2. Baisakhi -13-april - (North India- Punjab region)
3. Mahavir Jayanti - 11th april - (celebrated all over India)
4. Easter - 8-april - (celebrated all over India)
5. Muhharam - Date varies according to local calendar- (celebrated all over India)
6. Mewar festival - Date varies according to local calendar -(Regional festival of Rajasthan)
7. Buddha purnima- Date Varies every year - (regional festival of north india)

Major Indian Festivals in month of May:

1. Urs - date varies according to local calendar-(regional festival-rajasthan)

Major Indian Festivals in month of June:

1. Hemis Festival - Date varies according to local calendar - (regional festival of J&K)
2. Ganga Dussehra - Date varies according to local calendar - (regional festival of UP)

Major Indian Festivals in month of July:

1. Rathyatra -Date varies according to local calendar- (regional festival of Orissa)
2. Guru Purnima -Date varies every year- (celebrated all over India)

Major Indian Festivals in month of August:

1. Janmashtami- Date varies every year - (celebrated all over India)
2. Onam -Date varies according to local calendar - (Regional festival of Kerala)
3. Ganesh Chaturthi- Date varies every year - (celebrated all over india)
4. Rakshabandhan - Date varies every year - (regional festival of north India)
5. nag panchami - Date varies every year - (regional festival of south india)

Major Indian Festivals in month of october:

1. Navratri - celebrated for 9 consuctive days - Date varies every year -(celebrated all over india)
2. Durga pooja - Date varies according to local calendar -(regional festival of west bengal)
3. dussehra - Date varies every year - is the tenth day after Navratri - (celebrated all over India)

Major Indian Festivals in month of November:

1. Diwali or deepawali- Date varies every year - (celebrated all over india-biggest indian festival)
2. sharad poornima - Date varies every year -(celebrated all over India)
3. gur purab- Date varies every year- (regional festival of north India)

Major Indian Festivals in month of December:

1. Christmas- 25th december- (celebrated all over India)

Major Festivals of World, Countries

Various festivals are celebrated all over the world. Festivals which are celebrated in some particular region of world represents the culture and history of that country. Festivals helps in bringing mankind together forgeting their greivences and hence are very important for one and everyone.

Different countries have different festivals spread through out the year . Some festivals are celebrated through out the world with great zeal and celebrations. Christmas, Diwali, Eidare the most famous and biggest festivals of the world which is celebrated with great pomp and show through out the world.

I have created this blog so that each of us can be familiar with various festivals of world categorized by the countries itself, hence you can find detailed information about major world festivals once this blog is completly developed and can put your querries on major world festivals and the story behind each of the festival, just click on the country whose festivals you want to know about covering all major world festivals.

It can be film festivals, cultural events, heritage festivals, beer festivals or any other kind of festival you want to know about. Hence majorworldfestivals.blogspot.com is your single stop guide about the major world festivals.

just click on the name of the country in which you are interested in and get a detailed information about your favourite festival of that country.

Festivals rejuvenate ourselves and truly represent the prized culture of our country. All Major world festivals would be explained in full detail on majorworldfestivals.blogspot.com.

Feel free to ask any query about your favourite festival and do not forget to post your comment on the same share your knowledge about festivals and let the whole world know about your contry's most famous festival.

initially there would be detailed information about the festivals of India and in later stages i'l try to cover all the festival's of world and you all can give your contributions for the same by giving information about any of your regional festival and your national festivals.

So just browse through the blog and get detailed information about Major World Festivals.