The Bahá'í day begins at sunset of the previous calendar day, and ends at the following sunset

Feast of Naw-Rúz                                      March 21
(Bahá'í New Year)                                     (The Spring Equinox)

First Day of Ridván                                    April 21
(Declaration of Bahá'u'lláh, 1863, at 3 pm)

Ninth Day of Ridván                                   April 29

Twelfth Day of Ridván                                May 2

Declaration of The Báb, 1844                     May 23
(at about two hours after sunset)

Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh, 1892                    May 29
(at 3 am)

Martyrdom of The Báb, 1850                     July 9
(at noon)

Birth of The Báb, 1819                               October 20

Birth of Bahá'u'lláh, 1817                            November 12

Other Bahá'í Holy Days

Day of the Covenant                                   November 26

Ascension of Abdu'l-Bahá (1921)               November 28
(at 1 am)

For an illustration of the annual cycle of Holy Days go to: 

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  In addition to the Holy Days, the Baha'i community gathers regularly for prayer, consultation on community affairs and socializing every nineteen days. These days are fixed in the calendar: 

 

The Intercalary Days  - `Ayyam-i-Ha'

Bahá'u'lláh designated those days as the `Ayyam-i-Ha' and ordained that they should immediately precede the month of Alá, which is the month of fasting. He enjoined upon His followers to devote these days to feasting, rejoicing, and charity. While these four days from February 26 to March 1 are for feasting, rejoicing and charity, the exchanging of presents among believers is not an integral part of any of the nine Bahá'í Holy Days.



The Fast

Virtually all of the world's religions emphasize fasting as a means of spiritual purification. Each year, for example, Muslims abstain from food and drink between sunrise and sunset for twenty-eight days in a row.  Christ's reference to the importance of fasting is recorded in Chapters six and nine of the Gospel of Matthew.

Bahá'u'lláh called on Bahá'ís to refrain from eating or drinking from sunrise to sunset for nineteen consecutive days each year from 2 March to 20 March. This period, known simply as "the Fast," is considered a time for deep reflection on one's own spiritual progress. Efforts are made to detach oneself from material desires. Bahá'ís rise before dawn to eat breakfast and to pray. Those who are ill are exempt from fasting, as are pregnant and nursing women, people under 15 or over 70 years old, travelers, and those engaged in arduous physical labor.

"Whatever duty Thou hast prescribed unto Thy servants... is but a token of Thy grace unto them, that they may  be enabled to ascend unto the station conferred upon their own inmost being, the station of the knowledge of their own selves." -- Bahá'u'lláh

"Excerpted from The Bahá'ís, a publication of the Bahá'í International Community." Pg. 60

Link to the times of Fasting, from sunrise to sunset for St. John's.
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Qiblih

From St. John's, Newfoundland the great circle direction to Haifa is about

22 degrees North of East (True) = 6 degrees South of East (Magnetic)

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