Ashura 2020

August 2020 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 Friendship Day Sunday August 2 -4 years, -4 months, -20 days or -1603 days 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Assumption of Mary Day Saturday August 15 -4 years, -4 months, -7 days or -1590 days 16 17 18 19 20 21 Senior Citizens Day Friday August 21 -4 years, -4 months, -1 days or -1584 days 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Ashura Saturday August 29 -4 years, -3 months, -24 days or -1576 days 30 31

Ashura for the year 2020 is celebrated/ observed on sundown of Friday, August 28th ending at sundown on Saturday, August 29th.

Ashura marks the 10th day of the 1st month of Muharram on the Islamic lunar calendar. The day commemorates for Shia Muslims the death of Husayn ibn Ali who was the grandson of Muhammad in the Battle of Karbala of October 10, 680 CE. For Sunni Muslims the day relates to when Moses and his followers fled Egypt and where saved by God separating the Red Sea.

Days to Ashura 2020

Friday, August 28th is day number 241 of the 2020 calendar year with -4 years, -3 months, -25 days until Ashura 2020.