Help please with Religion Homework?

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Hi, have posted for ages but don't know where else to look... please can anyone help with my yr 7's homework? She needs to know the weekly 'Holy Day' for different religions.We are stuck on 'Hinduism' 'Buddhism' and 'Islam'. we have googled and found out all other information for these religions but not their holy day. Do they have a specific day each week? Any help would be gratefully accepted.

Islam - Friday.

Judiasm, Saterday
Also saterday for 7th day adventists, I think

Brilliant Thanks, just need the day for 'Hinduism' and 'Buddhism'Holy Days

umm, probably shouldn't admit this being an re teacher but i'm not sure that buddhists have a specific holy day as such ( and hindus too) but a great place to look is the www.bbc.co.uk/education website which if you go into lists re and all the main faiths. also sat not strictly true for jews its sundown fri to sundown sat to be nit-picky!!! hope that helps

We think (in the Mars household) that Thursday is the holy day for Hinduism. Can't help with buddhism... though actually let me email my friend... she's a buddhist

Ok... this is the reply I got from my friend.... not hugely helpful... sorry.

New Year's day is very important as we set our determinations for the year.

There are as many sects of Buddhism as there are of Christianity. There are variations from country to country too. In ours we might do special prayers for the anniversary
of the Buddhas passing or the day he inscribed the Dai -Gohonzon (the mandala we chant to).

Excellent, thanks so much for your help. rubyroo, we had been on that website,have saved it for future reference. it was helpful but as you say, there didn't seem to be a specific day.
thanks again everyone

Hindus don't have a holy day. well we don't celebrate one. There are certain days of the month (hindu calander) that are auspicious but not in a big way. We do have certin times of the day which are important, other than that jsut lots of festivals and special days.

I've jsut double checked with dp, and I'm wrong! Apparently tues/thurs are important. soem of the family apparently dont eat meat on tues/thurs, so that must be for auspicious reasons. I never knew that, the Hindus that I knwo personally have never marked it out espcially.

As I recall 7th Day Adventists, and some other groups work out the Sabbath from first prinicples. I think the idea is that they keep the 7th day constant, but everyone else keeps meddling with the calendat.

may be too late to help now..... Hinduism generally no specific weekly holy day - some Hindus observe fasting on tues or thurs, Hindus in UK would generally use sunday as a day to visit temple simply because it is usually a day off work. Buddhists have no specific weekly holy day. Muslims observe friday prayers (men only).