Easter festival is celebrated by which community?

Correct — C. Easter is the Christian feast of the resurrection — the day on which Christians hold that Jesus rose from the tomb, the third day after the crucifixion remembered on Good Friday.

It closes Holy Week, ends the forty days of Lent, and always falls on a Sunday.

None of the other three communities keeps this feast, so option (c) is the one.

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  Hindu — The Hindu calendar's spring festivals are Holi and Ram Navami. Easter has no place in it.
• (b)
  Sikh — The Sikh year turns on the gurpurabs and on Baisakhi, which marks the founding of the Khalsa in 1699.
• (d)
  Parsi — Navroz, the new year, is the principal Parsi festival, and the Zoroastrian calendar carries nothing corresponding to Easter.

Easter is a movable feast: the Sunday after the first full moon on or after the spring equinox. That is why the date shifts each year between late March and late April.

Lent, the forty-day fast, runs up to it. Good Friday remembers the crucifixion and Easter Sunday the resurrection, and together they form the centre of the Christian year — the oldest and, in doctrine, the principal feast.

Eastern churches compute the date on the Julian calendar, so Orthodox Easter often falls later than the Western one.

Key facts

• Easter commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ and always falls on a Sunday.
• Good Friday, which remembers the crucifixion, comes two days before Easter Sunday.
• Lent is the forty-day period of fasting that precedes Easter.
• Easter is a movable feast, set by the first full moon on or after the spring equinox.

Common traps

• Treating Christmas as the central Christian feast and Easter as a lesser one.
• Answering with a region when the question asks for a community.

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