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147. The number of months in a year, appointed in the Book of God, is nineteen. # 127 |
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The Bahá’í year, in accordance with the Badí calendar,
consists of nineteen months of nineteen days each, with the
addition of certain intercalary days (four in an ordinary year
and five in a leap year) between the eighteenth and nineteenth
months in order to adjust the calendar to the solar
year. The Báb named the months after certain attributes of
God. The Bahá’í New Year, Naw-Rúz, is astronomically
fixed, coinciding with the March equinox (see note 26). For
further details, including the names of the days of the week
and the months, see the section on the Bahá’í calendar in
The Bahá’í World, volume XVIII.
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