NJ State Board of Education Religious Holidays
2016-2017 School Year
September 1
September 2016
Ecclesiastical Year begins (Orthodox Christian)
September 5
Ganesha Chaturthi (Hindu)*
September 7
His Holiness Sakya Trizin’s Birthday (Buddhist)
September 8
Nativity of Mary (Christian)
Nativity of the Theotokos (Eastern Orthodox Christian)
September 10
Hajj day (Islam) *
September 14
Feast of Trumpets (Church of God, Philadelphia Church of God)
September 11-14 Eid al Adha (Islam)*
September 14
Onam (Hindu)* The Elevation of the Holy Cross (Eastern Orthodox Christian)
October 1-10
October 3
Navaratri (Hindu)*
The
Elevation
The Elevation
of the(Church
Holy Cross
(Eastern
Orthodox
Christian)
Feast
of Trumpets
of God,
Philadelphia
Church
of God)
October 3-4
Rosh Hashanah (Jewish)
October 11
Duserra (Hindu)*
October 12
Yom Kippur (Jewish); Day of Atonement; (Christian, Church of God,
ChChurch of God)
Philadelphia Church of God)
October 17-23
Sukkot (Jewish); Feast of Tabernacles (Church of God, Philadelphia Church of God)
October 20
October 24
Birth of B’ab (Bah’i); Installation of the Scriptures as Guru Granth (Sikh)
Last Great Day (Philadelphia Church of God); Shemini Atzeret (Jewish)
October 25
Simcat Torah (Jewish)
October 30
Diwali (Hindu, Jain and Sikh)*
October 31
Goverdhan Puja (Hindu)*
November 1
All Saints’ Day (Christian; Samhain-Beltane (Wicca)
November 2
All Souls’ Day (Christian)
November 12
Birth of Baha’u’llah (Baha’i)
November 14
Guru Nanak Dev Sahib Birthday (Sikh)
November 15
Nativity Fast begins (Eastern Orthodox Christian)
November 21
The Presentation of the Theotokos to the Temple (Eastern Orthodox CCC
Christian)
Christian)
November 24
Guru Tegh Bahadur Martyrdom (Sikh)
November 26
Day of Covenant (Baha’i)
October 2016
November 2016
November 27
First Sunday of Advent (Christian)
November 28
Ascension of ‘Abdu’l Baha (Baha’i)
December 8
Bodhi Day (Buddhist); Immaculate Conception (Christian)
December 14
Mawlid an Nabi (Islam)
December 21
Yule (Wicca and Christian)
December 25
Christmas (Christian)The Nativity of Christ (Eastern Orthodox Christian)
Christian)
Hanukkah (Jewish)
December 2016
December 25Jan 1
December
25
December 26
The Nativity of Christ (Eastern Orthodox Christian)
Zarathosht Diso (Zoroastrian)
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