CYPRUS HOLIDAYS

CYPRUS HOLIDAYS, off days, public holidays...

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS COMMON TO BOTH COMMUNITIES

January 1st - New Year's Day
March 25th - Greek Independence Day
October 1st - Cyprus Independence Day
October 29th - Turkish Independence Day

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS FOR THE GREEK COMMUNITY
January 6th Epiphany
40 days before Easter - Green Monday
January 19th Name day of Archbishop Makarios III
April 1st - EOKA Day
Movable - Good Friday
October 28th - OXI day - Greece's defiance of Mussolini December 25th - Christmas Day December 26th - Boxing Day

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS FOR THE TURKISH COMMUNITY
April 23rd Children's Bairam
May 19th Sports and Youth Bairam
August 30th Zafer Bairam
Movable Birthday of the Prophet
Movable Sheker Bairam (Ramadan), two days
Movable Qurban Bairam (Feast of Sacrifices), three day

HOLY DAYS
The holy days of the Orthodox Church are celebrated by special services, and by customs, some of which may be traced from pagan times and which have been assimilated into the Christian calendar. The chief holy days are:

January 1st New Year's Day (St Vassilios)
January 6th The Epiphany
January 30th SS Chrysostomos, Vassilios and Gregory
February 10th St Charalambos
March 25th The Annunciation
Movable Good Friday
Movable Easter Day
April 23rd St George
May 21st SS Constantine and Helena
Movable Ascension Day
Movable Whit Sunday
June llth St Barnabas
June 29th SS Peter and Paul
August 6th The Transfiguration
August 15th The Assumption
August 29th Beheading of St John the Baptist Nativity of the Blessed Virgin
September 14th Exaltation of the Holy Cross
October 18th St Luke
November 30th St Andreas
December 12th St Spyridon
December 25th Christmas Day

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