Jamshedi Navroz 2028: Date, History & Significance

The day is kept with the Jashan ceremony, a haft-seen or ses-style table of symbolic items, new clothes, spring flowers, visits and sweets. It is also observed by the Iranian community and, as Nowruz, by Ismaili Muslims and Kashmiris. In India it is a gazetted holiday, listed separately from the August Parsi New Year.

In the Shahnameh, the mythical king Jamshid, at the height of a reign of peace and plenty, had a throne raised by demons up to the sky; the day the sun's light fell on him there was named 'Now-Ruz', the new day, and kept as a festival ever after. Zoroastrian teaching lays over this the idea of the year turning with the sun, life renewing, and the world moving toward its final refreshment (frashokereti).

Source: The scriptures and calendar of the tradition; community religious practice in India

Nowruz on the equinox is over three thousand years old and is a UNESCO-listed intangible heritage; the Fasli reform of the Parsi calendar (1906) aligned the religious year to it. Jamshedi Navroz is a gazetted holiday in India.

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1. Homes are cleaned, the doorstep is decorated with chalk rangoli and a toran of flowers, and new clothes are worn.
2. Families visit the agiary or atash behram to pray, and a Jashan thanksgiving ceremony is performed by the priests.
3. Relatives and friends visit with the greeting 'Navroz Mubarak'; some households lay a table with symbols of spring renewal.

• Mumbai, Pune, Gujarat. The Jashan, the symbolic table, spring flowers, Sal Mubarak and a festive meal; kept by all Parsi calendar groups as a spring festival.
• Kashmir, and the Iranian and Ismaili communities. Nowruz on the equinox — feasting, visits, and the haft-seen table.

• Sev and ravo — Sweet vermicelli and a semolina-milk pudding, the breakfast of every Parsi festival.
• Falooda — Rose-flavoured milk with vermicelli and basil seeds for guests.

Jamshedi Navroz (Fasli) falls on Tuesday, 21 March 2028. Zoroastrian / Persian new year of the Fasli reckoning, aligned to the spring equinox.

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The spring equinox, about 20–21 March. The Zoroastrian Shahenshahi calendar has a fixed 365-day year with no leap day and has drifted against the seasons, while the Fasli reform re-fixes the year to the spring equinox.

The date is set by the Hindu lunisolar calendar and shifts against the Gregorian year.