Topic: Other days of the Islamic calendar
Does Brazil have Other days of the Islamic calendar?
Not observed here
Brazil has no national Islamic holiday. Federal holidays are fixed by Law 662 of 1949, a list combining secular and Catholic tradition and containing no Islamic festival; Law 9,093 of 1995 then devolves the designation of religious holidays to municipalities, capped at four days each including Good Friday. So Brazil does leave an opening at local level, but it is a narrow one — in most cities the four-day allowance is long since filled by existing Catholic feasts. Observance is therefore arranged by mosques and Islamic centres themselves, with the larger communities in São Paulo and Foz do Iguaçu.
What is this topic?
Beyond Ramadan and the two Eids, the Islamic calendar carries several more days: the New Year on 1 Muharram, Ashura on 10 Muharram, the Prophet's birthday, and Isra Mi'raj. Of the seven places compared here, only Indonesia and India put any of them on the official calendar — and the two do not mark the same day. Indonesia takes 1 Muharram; India's gazetted "Muharram" is the tenth, Ashura, a full ten days later in 2026. Their Mawlid dates fall a day apart. How the date is fixed, and by whom, tells you more than the date itself.
Sources and dates
Dates follow local time zones, calendars, and official notices. Check the source when a date is estimated or locally variable.