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Christmas around the world

December 5, 2016
Armenia

Armenians celebrate Christmas on January 6th and some of them fast three days beforehand. They celebrate on this date because Jesus’ date of birth was never clearly established and all Churches used to celebrate on this date until the 4th century. Armenian houses are decorated with Christmas trees (tonatsar) and Nativity scenes.

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