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Parsi New Year
Navroze of the Parsis: fire temple prayers, rangoli, sev and dar ni pori, and a long family lunch of patra ni machhi.
When is Parsi New Year in 2027?
Parsi New Year 2027 is on Sunday, 15 August 2027. Other years: 2026, Saturday, 15 August 2026; 2028, Monday, 14 August 2028.
About Parsi New Year
The Parsis of India and Pakistan, whose ancestors came from Persia, celebrate their New Year, Navroze, in August in the Shahenshahi calendar, which has no leap year and so has slipped against the Gregorian one. The day starts with a visit to the fire temple, the agiary, where prayers are said and sandalwood is offered to the flame. Houses are cleaned and decorated with chalk designs and flowers, and people wear new clothes, usually white for the women's saris. The family eats a lunch of fish steamed in a banana leaf with green chutney, patra ni machhi, pulao-dal, and sweet sev and lagan nu custard, with falooda to drink. Friends greet one another with "Sal Mubarak".
Parsi New Year dates: 2026, 2027, 2028
| Year | Parsi New Year date |
|---|---|
| 2026 | Saturday, 15 August 2026 |
| 2027 | Sunday, 15 August 2027 |
| 2028 | Monday, 14 August 2028 |
What is eaten
- patra ni machhi
- pulao dal
- sev
- lagan nu custard
- falooda
Traditions of Parsi New Year
Also part of it, and being written: Patra ni machhi (The fish in banana leaf of the festive table.), Parsis (The community in India.).
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Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Chaharshanbe Suri: Philippe Giabbanelli, CC BY 3.0, source
- Sizdah Bedar: PersianDutchNetwork, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sadeh: Farzad j, Public domain, source
- Pahlevani and zurkhaneh rituals: Hossein Khosravi, CC BY 4.0, source
- Nowruz: Peretz Partensky, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Haft-sin: HengamehRM, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Fire temple: Uploaded to Flickr by Adam Jones (Copied to Wikimedia by nagualdesign, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Samanu: Myone63, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Egg decorating: L.Kenzel, CC BY 3.0, source
- Kha b'Nisan: Athrakado, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Eidiyah: Rahbar Emamdadi, CC BY 4.0, source