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Observed officially for 10 days, by private institutions from 3 to 7 days. 9-12 Dhul-Hijjah. The Feast of the End of Hajj. Eid al-Adha. Observed officially for 10 days, by private institutions from 3 to 7 days. 22 February. Founding Day (Foundation of the First Saudi State in 1727) Al-Yawm Al-Taasis. Officially for one day.
Saudi National Day (Arabic: اليوم الوطني للمملكة العربية السعودية al-Yawm al-Waṭanī lil-Mamlaka al-ʿArabiyya as-Saʿūdiyya) is a public holiday in Saudi Arabia celebrated annually on 23 September to commemorate the proclamation that renamed the Kingdom of Nejd and Hejaz as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932 through a royal decree by King Abdulaziz ibn Saud.
Saudi Founding Day (Arabic: يوم التأسيس السعودي), officially the Founding Day (Arabic: يوم التأسيس), is a public holiday in Saudi Arabia celebrated annually on February 22 to commemorate the enthronement of Muhammad bin Saud as the emir of the oasis town of Diriyah in 1727 following the death of his father Saud al-Muqrin, the eponymous ancestor of the al-Saud family.
Eid al-Fitr ( / ˌiːd əl ˈfɪtər, - trə / EED əl FIT-ər, -rə; Arabic: عيد الفطر, romanized : ʿĪd al-Fiṭr, lit. 'Feast of Breaking the Fast', IPA: [ʕiːd al ˈfɪtˤr]) is the earlier of the two official holidays celebrated within Islam (the other being Eid al-Adha ).
Each year, Eid al-Adha (like other Islamic holidays) falls on one of about two to four Gregorian dates in parts of the world, because the boundary of crescent visibility is different from the International Date Line. The following list shows the official dates of Eid al-Adha for Saudi Arabia as announced by the Supreme Judicial Council.
Mawlid ( Arabic: مولد) is an annual festival and holiday commemorating the birthday of Muhammad on the traditional date of 12 Rabiʽ al-Awwal, the fourth month of the Islamic calendar. A day central to the Sufi tradition of Sunni Islam, the Mawlid is also celebrated by Shia Muslims .
Islam portal. v. t. e. There are two main holidays in Islam that are celebrated by Muslims worldwide: Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. The timing of both holidays are set by the lunar Islamic calendar, which is based upon the cycle of the moon, and so is different from the more common, European, solar-based Gregorian calendar.
Saudi Flag Day. Saudi Flag Day ( Arabic: يوم العلم السعودي ), officially the Flag Day (Arabic: يوم العلم ), [1] is a public holiday in Saudi Arabia observed annually on March 11 to commemorate the adoption of the unstandardized version of the country's national flag by King Abdulaziz ibn Saud in 1937. [2] It was first ...