Tuesday 20 March 2018

Norooz Celebrations in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.

What is Eid Norooz?

Norooz or Nuruz is celebrated across GB as new year & spring festival.

The Persian & Shamsi Calendar New Year is called Norooz (also Nowruz, Nawroz, among other spellings) and marks the first day of spring. It's also the Baha'i New Year, but the holiday is celebrated by Iranians of all religions. History. Norooz celebrates renewal and rebirth, symbolized by the coming of spring.

The festival of Nowruz is celebrated by many groups of people in the Black Sea basin, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Western Asia, central and southern Asia, and the people of Tajikistan, Turkamanistan, Azarbaijan & Northern Pakistan specially Gilgit-Baltistan region & Chitral region of KPK.