How does Brazil mark Eid al-Adha?
Eid al-Adha (Festa do Sacrifício)
- Local date
- May 17, 2027
- When is it?
- The tenth day of the month of Dhul Hijjah in the Islamic calendar; not a statutory holiday, determined by each mosque's announcement
In Brazil, Eid al-Adha is neither a national holiday nor, yet, a statutory commemorative date. In February 2024 a Senate committee approved a proposal to add Jewish and Islamic festivals to the national list of commemorative dates. According to the 2010 census, Muslims were about 0.02 per cent of the population, some 35,000 people, so the day runs on announcements and arrangements made by individual mosques and communities. Here the question about the festival is not how it is kept, but whether it has been written into the country's calendar at all.
What is this topic?
One date in the Islamic calendar, four different institutional treatments: Indonesia makes it a national holiday and adds joint leave; India lists it among national holidays; the United States has no federal holiday but New York City public schools close; and in Brazil it is not even a statutory commemorative date yet — a Senate committee only approved adding Islamic festivals to the national calendar in 2024. What this page compares is the level of recognition, not the details of the rite.
Sources and dates
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