Eve of Ridván

Bahá’í  (continues through Monday, May 1)
Commemorating the twelve days that Bahá’u’lláh spent in the garden of Ridván during his exile in Baghdad and when he proclaimed himself as the one announced by the Báb, which occurred in 1863 C.E.  On the first (4/20), ninth (4/28), and twelfth days (5/1) of this festival, work is suspended.  The festival begins at sundown.