Assyrian New Year Parade

at , Chicago , 60659 United States

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Organizing events for the Assyrian New Year's festivities including the Assyrian New Year Parade, Assyrian New Year's Party,.... in the Chicagoland.

Description

April 1st is the Assyrian New Year. It is the most important national festival handed down thru history from the remote past. The Assyrians of today all over the world celebrate this day as their national festival. Before the Assyrians embraced Christianity in the first century A.D., the New Year was celebrated on what would be our 21st of March according the ancient calendar. This date then and as it does now is the very beginning of spring. Centuries before the fall of the Assyrian Empire in 612 BC when its power and civilization spread all over the Middle East, other nations like Medes, Persians, and Arabs adopt and celebrated the 21st of March as the New Year for all the ancient world. After the Assyrians converted to Christianity in the first century and the Gregorian calendar was established in the Christian world, the Assyrians also accepted the new calendar and they moved their New Year from March 21st to April 1st. Iranian and the people of Iraq (Arabs and Kurds) today celebrate this day on March 21st. In Iran the New Years Day is called “NoRuz” meaning “New Day”. Assyrian Universal Alliance (AUA) designated this day as the official national day for Assyrians all over the world in 1968. It is the beginning of spring when nature wakes up from the winter sleep, and the trees, plants, fields and flowers begin to bloom again. This means new life to which the Assyrians of forefathers gave a great credit in their philosophy of creation. Revival and rising from death played a big role in the mythology. Assyrians of today celebrate the 1st of April by holding parades, parties, festivals, lectures, and cultural programs. They also gather in the Assyrian clubs and social institutions and listen to the poets who recite the story of the creation, and have a good time. Assyrian New Year was the biggest festival in the ancient Assyrian and Babylonian Empires. It started on March 21st, which was the first day on the month (Nissan) and beginning of the New Year for the Assyrian calendar. This festival was celebrated for 12 days. The tablets discovered and deciphered by the archaeologists explain the festivities celebrated in those days. In Assyria this festival was the most important event of the year. People from all over the Empire came to either the political capital, Nineveh or the religious capital, Babylon and participated in the celebration. There were elaborate and magnificent processions to and from the great temple in Babylon called “Esagila”. Nowadays the Assyrians New Year falls close to the Easter holidays, which remembers the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, who spoke Aramaic “the Assyrian Language”, which ties in the ancient, and contemporary of the Assyrian people. Come and celebrate this new day with Assyrians.

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Assyrian New Year Parade is Chicago based place and this enity listed in Community Organization category. 60659. Contact phone number of Assyrian New Year Parade: (773) 743-4027