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Multi-faith Dates in January

1 Feast of St Basil (Orthodox Christian) 
Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great, was the bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia Asia Minor (Modern-day Turkey).

5 Birth of Guru Gobind Singh (Sikh) 
Guru Gobind Singh was the last of the 10 human Gurus of the Sikh faith. He was born in 1666.   

6 Epiphany (Christian) 
Falls on the 12th day after Christmas and signals the end of the Christmas season for Western Christians. 

7 Mahayana New Year (Buddhist) 
Mahayana Buddhism is the largest sub-division of the Buddhist religion.
 

18Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (Christian) (-25)
The week of Prayer for Christian Unity is an international Christian ecumenical observance kept annually between Ascension and Pentecost in the Southern hemisphere.  

25 Vasant Panchami – Saraswati Puja (Hindu) 
Festival that welcomes spring.