Today is the beginning of a new Bahá'i year (B.E. 170), and Naw Rúz, (pronounced no rooz), or New Day, is celebrated by Bahá'is around the world.
"Do you know in what day you are living? Do you realize in what dispensation you are alive ? Have you not read in the holy scriptures that the consummation of the ages there shall appear a day which is the sun of all the past days?"
--'Abdu'l-Bahá
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Another Video, where Bahá'is from South America send their Nooruz greetings to their persecuted Iranian brethren.
One more!
Naw Ruz English version from Nadine Reyhani on Vimeo.
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The Baha’i year consists of 19 months of 19 days each (361 days), with the addition of “Intercalary Days” (four in ordinary and five in leap years) between the eighteenth and nineteenth months to adjust the calendar to the solar year. The months are named after the attributes of God.
The Baha’i New Year coincides with the March equinox (March 21). The Baha’i Era commenced with the year of the Bab’s declaration (1844 A.D.). Each Baha’i community holds a Nineteen Day Feast on the first day of each Baha’i month. The Feast has spiritual, administrative and social functions and is the principal gathering of Baha’is of a particular locality. Because the Baha’i day lasts from sunset to sunset, the Nineteen Day Feast is generally held in the evening on the day before the first day of the Baha’i month according to the Gregorian calendar.
Here's a graphic.
From here.
