Top 10 world’s most popular Religious Festival name.

Popular religious festival name is of special importance to that religion. There are hundreds of religious festivals name  around the world. 

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. There are hundreds of different religious festivals are held around the world each year.

Hindu religious festivals are celebrated throughout the world. A festival may be observed as an act of worship, offerings to deities, fasting, feasting, vigil, rituals, fairs, charity, celebrations, puja homo & aarti etc. The top 10 Religious festivals around the world are as follows.

1. Diwali in India:

The word “Diwali” comes from the Sanskrit word “Deepavali” a Religious festival name which means lamps are lit in rows. Diwali is the festival of lights, marks the time when millions of Hindus, Sikhs and Janis all over the world celebrate the triumph of good over evil with beautiful rituals such as festive lights, fireworks, sweets delicacies and family gatherings Diwali is 5 day festival but the main day of celebration is 3 day it is also known as Laxmi puja. The 5 day of Diwali is as follows.

Dhantaras:–

On the first day of Diwali, people will perform rituals called puja, and place the lights around the house and entryways of the home.

Narak Chaturdashi:–

Different regions celebrate this day in various ways, but many people will spend time and home to exchange sweets with family friends.

 Laxmi puja:-

The main celebration is believed to be the most auspicious day to worship the goddess Laxmi. Families will dress up and gather to offer prayers, light fie works share meals and more.

Govardhan puja:-

This day is associated with Lord Krishna and the Gujarati New Year. A mountain of food offerings is prepared for puja.

Bhaya Dooj:–

The last day is dedicated to celebrating the sibling bond. Traditionally brothers will visit and bring gifts to their sisters, to honour them with special rituals and sweets.

The presence of lights in many different forms is crucial to celebrating these five-day festivals.” Diwali “derives its name from the clay oil lamp called a Diya. Diyas are handcrafted little cups with flattened rims painted in bright colours and filled with oil. A cotton wick is placed half in the oil and half on a small shelf on the rim of Diya.

 Across all over India, families place rows of oil lamps along with foundations entry path of balconies of their dwellings, Deepavali “Deep another name of the oil lamp, and avail which means rows or cluster of the lamps.

These rows of Diyas are intended to dispel the darkness, fear and ignorance and entrance of Laxmi the Goddess of wealth and wellbeing the home. Sweets are very important in our Diwali celebrations Visual decorations like rangoli. It is an art form using coloured sand, flowers and other materials) are also popular ways to celebrate Diwali. Fireworks are also a major part of the celebrations all over India.

2. Dia de Los Muertos-MAXICO

Mexico: “Dia de Los Muertos “the day of the dead – It is a religious festival name is a holiday celebrated three-day festival from October 31 to November-2.Dia de Los Muertos is strongly associated with Mexico. Where the tradition is originated.

“Dia de Los Muertos” honours the dead person with festivals and lively celebrations, a typically Latin American custom that combines indigenous Aztec ritual with Catholicism, brought to the region by Spanish conquistadores. (Dia de Los Muertos is celebrated on All Saints Day and All Souls Day, minor holidays in the Catholic calendar.)The family members of the dead person remember their loved ones at graveyard vigils and altars decorated with offerings of food, drink and flowers.

Dia de Los Muertos celebrates all Saints day and Souls Day, minor holidays in Catholic Church. It is believed that the dead would be insulted by mournings or sadness. Die de Los Muertos celebrate the lives of the deceased with food, drink, parties, and activate the dead to enjoy life.

 The most familiar symbol of Dia de Los Muertos may be the calacas and Calaveras (skeletons and skulls), which appear everywhere during the holiday. Calacas and Calaveras are almost always portrayed as enjoying life, often in fancy clothes and entertaining situations.

Dia de Los Muertos celebrates death as a part of the human experience. Every living thing will eventually die. Every human being no matter how beautiful he is or well dressed will eventually be exposed as nothing more than a Skelton& skull.  

The half-decorated calacas and Calaveras recognize this duality. In recent years the festival has moved out of the graveyard and spread to private homes and into public space in the form of parties and parades including an annual Day of the Dead parade.

3. The Obon festival of -Japan:

“Obon”’ is the Japanese religious festival name transliteration of the Sanskrit word “Tulamben” which means “to hang upside down” and implies unbearable pain and suffering. For this Japanese, the festival is held to free ancestor’s spirits of the pain. It is believed that during “Obon”, the spirits of the dead revisit their families. This festival is a happy celebration of family unity and continuity, which is marked with fires, lanterns, a family get together and a special dance by the family members.

“Obon” is held generally celebrated between August 13th and 15th. Many shops and businesses will close during this period. It is also traditional for people to spend time with their families during “Obon”.People working in the big cities such as Tokyo, or Osaka, will travel often back to their home towns for celebrating this occasion. Because “Oben” is one of the main annual occasions when extended families are reunited. The Railway station, Airports are especially busy at this time of the year.

 In the “Oben” festival traditionally lanterns or small bonfires called mukaebi (welcoming fires) are lit on the first day of the festival to guide the spirits to home. People will light incense, and leaves flowers and food offerings at their family altars. Visit grave is another important custom when families visit their family tombs, clean them up, decorate them with flowers and pray for peaceful respect to the dead.

The next part of the festival is “Bon Odori” or “Bon Dance”. This is a special folk dance, held in local communities throughout the country. Typically people are dressed in “yukata” a kind of (light summer cotton kimono)dance in a circle around a high stage of music is played and old songs are sung.

Between the 12th and 15th of August thousands of dancers and musicians dressed in colourful costumes’ parade through the street of Tokushima. On the last day of the Oben festival send -off fires called “Okuribi” is lit to guide the spirits back to the world of the dead. The most famous okuribi are the giant bonfires that are lit on five mountains around the city “Kyoto” on 16th.

The most famous Obon festivals in Japan are Awa Odori (Tokushima, Shikoku), Daimonji Gozan Okuribi Fire Festival (Kyoto), Festival (Nagasaki), and Hokkai Bon Odori (Mikasa, Hokkaido).Many local communities will also light a special kind of send-off fire called “Toro- nagashi”.These are floating paper lanterns with candelas inside which are released into the river or sea.

4. Oktoberfest-Germany:–

Oktoberfest, an annual festival in Germany, is held over a two-week period and ending on the first Sunday in October. Oktoberfest, an annual festival in Munich in Germany, was held over a  two week period on the first Sunday in October. The festival originated on October 12, 1810, in celebration of the own prince of Bavaria, who later became the king of Louis I.

The Okbearfeast is an important part of Bavarian culture, having been held since 1810. The festival concluded five days later with a horse race held in an open area that came to be called “Theresienwiese”. Large quantities of Oktoberfest Beer are consumed, with almost 7 million litres served during the 16-day festival in 2007.

Oktoberfest is a 16-day beer festival held annually in Munich, Bavaria in Germany running from September to the first weekend of October. Oktoberfest is one of the most famous events in Germany. This is one of the world’s largest fairs, with more than 5 million people attending every year.

Oktoberfest Germany is the world’s largest folk fest where Germans and beer aficionados from all around the world gather every year at the fairgrounds of wiesn to celebrate the centuries-old Bavarian traditions with millions of litters of Munich –brewed beer.

5. Yuan Xiao Festival-China:-

This religious festival name is also known as the traditional lantern festival in China. Yuan Xiao Festival is the second most important and auspiciously celebrated festival in the country after the Spring Festival. The festival is celebrated exact on the 15^th day of the celebration of the Chinese New Year Festival. It is marking the end of the celebration of the New Year.

In this festival, the entire country is adorned beautifully with colourful lanterns of varied sizes, colours, and shapes. The country looks so stunning and admiring during the nighttime with the charm of colourful lit up lanterns.

The Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival is also called the “Shangyuan” Festival. This traditional festival is celebrated every year the first month of the lunisolar Chinese calendar. This festival falls in the month of February or early March of the year.

During the Lantern Festival, children go out of the house at night and carrying paper lanterns and solve riddles on the lanterns. In modern times lanterns have been embellished with many complex designs. The lanterns are almost always red to symbolize good fortune.

When Buddhism was growing in China, Buddhist monks would light lanterns in temples on the 15th day of the first lunar month. As a result, the Emperor of China ordered all households, temples, and imperial places to light lanterns on that evening. From this tradition, it developed into a folk custom.

6. New Orleans Mardi Gras-USA:–

Among all the festivals celebrated in America, there’s nothing more colourful and thrilling than a Mardi Gras festival, which is marked by a lot of parades and events, all over the city. The New Orleans Mardi Gras is an event that is organised by the social clubs in the city, and people dress up in colourful costumes and parade around the city. The New Orleans Mardi Gras is an event that is organised by the social clubs in the city& people dressed up in colourful costumes and parade around the city. This is considered to be one of the best festivals in the USA.

 New Orleans was established in 1718 by Bienville . By the 1730s Mardi gras was celebrated openly in New Orleans. In the early 1740’s Louisiana’s governor, the Marquis de Vaudreuil established elegant society balls, which became the model of the New Orleans Mardi Gras balls of today.

Mardi Gras has been celebrated in New Orleans since explorer Iberville first set foot here on Mardi Gras Day 1699.

7. Bayonne festivities-France:-

The first time in Bayonne took place in 1932, organized by lovers of the Pamplona festivities. The Bayonne festivities have grown to become a must-attend event for the citizens of the region.

The Bayonne festivities are renowned for their unique atmosphere. It is a five-day festive atmosphere that reigns over Bayonne, both day and night. The people are out in the street, dressed in traditional Basque clothing, a shirt and white trousers, scarf, belt and red beret. Over the holidays, most of the restaurants located on the sidewalks are bustling with an actual tide of tourists.

Basque dances, chariot parades, concerts, public balls, songs, cow races, bullfights, bands, Basque balls, fireworks are shows in public places to celebrate this festival. Bayonne is famous throughout the world for its summer festival. Bayonne is buzzing all year round with major events like cultural, traditional, sporting, etc. Chocolate is the major item in this festival.

During France’s Feast of Ascension bank holiday weekend, Bayonne organises its Chocolate days in honour of this divine delicacy. Good cheer and fun are dominant features in Bayonne where each event becomes an opportunity for spontaneous celebrations in the towns and bars and restaurants.

8. Infiorata Festival-Italy:-

The famous infiorata or flower festival is held in the month of May or June month in Italy. This religious festival name  festival is held in various towns in Italy using flower petals to create a large fantastic floral decoration in the street. During this festival, the entire town was involved in info rate. There were various themes for the design of carpets, artwork, and religious abstracts in the entire town.

This event is rooted in religious traditions and it was first organised in Rome. Benedetto Drei and his son are considered the first promoter of this custom of using flowers from saint peter’s Basilica to reproduce mosaics by cutting and placing each flower in a particular way.

This tradition was inaugurated in 1265 and gave start a real trend, which was evolved throughout the years into a real artistic event taking place on the occasion of the Catholic feast of the Corpus Domini. Flower petals are gathered and placed so as to form particular drawings.

The streets are to be decorated to create a real path where colours and nature are the main factors. In these festivals, the people are participating in large numbers with different roles in the management and planning of the celebrations.

The art forms are created by beautiful flowers and petals. Cantered on multiple themes, tapestries are designed on the streets as well as abbeys. Churches and houses are also decorated with flowers. Once the tapestries are completed, religious processions take place during the famous festivals in Italy.

9. Ouidah Voodoo Festival-South Africa:–

Benin is widely regarded as the birthplace of West African vodun, which is popularly known as voodoo. This is one of the religious festival names. The town of Ouidah is famous for the voodoo festival in South Africa. This is one of the best tourist places of South Africa.

The cultural fate is organised every year by the fun people of the major African ethnolinguistic group. On 10^th January each year, Benin holds a national celebration day in honour of its traditional religion and of the cults associated with it. Ouidah, in a particular, is a focus of these ceremonies, and thousands of adepts’ traditional chiefs and fetish priests gather here to perform fascinating rites and rituals. 

The voodoo festival is a public holiday celebrated all over the country. In this festival singing, dancing, processions and imbibing of alcohol honour the history of religion in West Africa.

10. Jinhae Gunhangje Festival-South Korea:

 Jinhae-gu is a district in Changwon city in South Korea. Jinhae was developed as a naval base of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Japanese occupation period in the early 20th century.

Jinhae is part of a large urban corridor that links the adjacent cities” Masan” and “Changwon” in South Korea. This is also a religious festival name. Each spring the city hosts a ten-day festival variously promoted as the Military Parade Festival or the Cherry Blossom Festival each spring over the many years.

Each spring millions of Koreans and other visitors crowd into the town to view the cherry blossoms and to see the street performer, carnival stall, music of bands and street lighting as well as the military parades which commemorate the victory of Admiral Yi Sun Shine.

This festival is observed for 10days. The best 5 things people must enjoy in this festivals. (a)Romance Bridge over Yeojwacheon stream. (b)Gyeonghwa station. (c)Yeojwacheon Light festival at night. (d)Food & Drink (e) The Korea Naval Academy & command of the naval base