Yazidi New Year
| Yazidi New Year | |
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Yazidi New Year festival at Lalish (18 April 2017) celebrating the start of the new year which begins the following day. | |
| Observed by | Yazidis |
| Type | Religious |
| Frequency | Annual |
| Part of a series on the Yazidi religion |
| Yazidism |
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The Yazidi New Year (Sersal) is called Çarşema Sor ("Red Wednesday") or Çarşema Serê Nîsanê ("Wednesday at the beginning of April") in Kurmanji. It falls in spring, on the first Wednesday of the April and Nîsan months in the Julian and Seleucid calendars, i.e. the first Wednesday on or after 14 April according to the Gregorian calendar.