Transcript RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS IN TURKEY

RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS IN TURKEY
RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS IN TURKEY
• Although we don’t celebrate Noel ,we
muslims have two religious festivals
celebrated on different days every
year,generally ten days earlier than the year
they were celebrated before.The reason for
this is that these festivals are calculated
according to lunar calendar.We also other
religious days but they are not considered as
feast but as days or nights during which
people say their prayers .
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One of these festivals is the Ramadan Festival
or Feast.It lasts for three and a half days.Half day is
The Eve,during which people do a very through
cleaning,some shopping.Families usually buy new
clothes for themselves and their children. One of the
main characterisitics of these religious festivals is
that people visit eacher other ,their friends and
their neighbours.Turkish delight,baklava,kadayıf
• or other kind of Turkish sweets
• are served
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• If small children visit the old ones ,they kiss
their hands and they get their best wishes
and blessings for their future life and are
granted money or a handkerchief full of
candies and small presents.Grandparents
sometimes give their grandchildren small gold
ornaments depending on their financial
status.
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• Ramadan Hoilday is different from the feast of
sacrifice.It comes after the fasting month ,during
which people don’t eat nor drink anything from
sunrise to sunset.Just before the Ramadan
holiday begins , people give money to the
poor:The amount of the money is calculated
every year by the Ministry of Religious Affairs
that’s why Ramadan month is called The Month
of Sharing and Affection’Some men go to
mosques early in the morning
During the Feast of the Sacrifice ,not only candies but also
the meat of sacrificial animal are served to guests
ln some regions of Turkey rams are washed, painted with
henna and are dressed up with bridal ribbons.
After the ram is sacrificied,families and relatives and
sometimes neighbours gather together to have lunch prepared
by the meat of the sacrificied animal.One-third of the meat
from the sacrificed animals is left in the house.
The other parts are given to relatives
neighbors and the poor.
Both during Ramadan and
the Feast of the Sacrifice people
come together, celebrate
and entertain each other.
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