Khanna Omarkhali
The Yezidi Religious Textual Tradition: From Oral to Written
Harrassowitz, 2017. The calendar synopsis identifies the first Wednesday of Eastern April, the first Friday of Eastern December, and the Eastern dates of the Assembly.
Winter · Friday feast
Cejna Êzî dates and reckoning
Cejna Êzî is the Friday feast that concludes the three-day Rojiyên Êzî fast. In the Gregorian calendar it currently falls on the first Friday on or after 14 December.
Calculation shown
Specialist sources
1600–4099
2026 date
Friday, 18 December 2026
See the full 2026 calendar
What the calculator does
How the Cejna Êzî date is calculated
Convert 1 December in the Julian calendar to Gregorian, then advance to the first Friday, including that day if it is already Friday.
Rule used
First Friday of Eastern December
Whose practice does this represent?
Widely observed. Naming and explanatory traditions vary across communities.
Annual index
Cejna Êzî dates by year
Each year links to a permanent, server-rendered calendar page.
| Year | Gregorian date | Reckoning |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Friday, 20 December 2024 | First Friday of Eastern December |
| 2025 | Friday, 19 December 2025 | First Friday of Eastern December |
| 2026 | Friday, 18 December 2026 | First Friday of Eastern December |
| 2027 | Friday, 17 December 2027 | First Friday of Eastern December |
| 2028 | Friday, 15 December 2028 | First Friday of Eastern December |
| 2029 | Friday, 14 December 2029 | First Friday of Eastern December |
| 2030 | Friday, 20 December 2030 | First Friday of Eastern December |
| 2031 | Friday, 19 December 2031 | First Friday of Eastern December |
Calculation method
Transparent reckoning, not a black box
The tool treats “Eastern calendar” as the Julian civil calendar named in the cited scholarly descriptions. It converts both systems through a Julian Day Number—a continuous day count—then applies the stated weekday or date rule.
- 1Normalize the day
Gregorian and Julian labels are mapped to the same continuous day number.
- 2Apply the observance rule
For example: first Wednesday of Eastern April, or first Friday of Eastern December.
- 3Return the civil date
The result is converted back to Gregorian for the annual index and displayed with its source rule.
Not a universal religious ruling. Yazidi observance is living and regionally varied. Community and religious authorities remain the authority for actual practice.
The gap is not always thirteen days. It is 13 days for 1900–2099, but changes across centuries because Gregorian and Julian leap-year rules differ. The converter calculates it rather than hard-coding 13.
No invented era year. Claims for a single ancient Yazidi year count are not consistently established in the specialist sources used here, so the tool labels Julian dates plainly.
Sources & authority
What this reckoning is based on
Academic sources define the rules; an official regional calendar cross-checks contemporary civil dates; a community calendar supplies the labelled Batizmî windows.
Khalil Jindy Rashow
“Jažn-ā Jamāʿiya,” Encyclopaedia Iranica
A specialist account of the Assembly, its Eastern-calendar span, and its rites at Lalish.
Kurdistan Regional Government
Official Calendar 2026
Contemporary official cross-check: Yazidi New Year on 15 April, Jama Feast on 6–12 October, and Ezi Day Feast on 18 December 2026.
Eszter Spät
“Persecution and the Development of Yezidi Ritual Life”
Kurdish Studies 4(2), 2016. Documents Batizmî as a mid-January Çêlka observance and stresses the multiform character of Yazidi ritual traditions.
SJA — Säkularer Humanismus und Jesidisches Archiv
Jesidischer Festkalender
Community calendar used for the separately labelled Torî and Çolî Batizmî reference windows.