The Badí Calendar
The Bahá'í calendar structures time around spiritual principles — nineteen months of nineteen days each — unifying the Bahá'í world.
The Badí (Wondrous) calendar established by the Báb and affirmed by Bahá'u'lláh structures the Bahá'í year into nineteen months of nineteen days each (with intercalary days). Each month is named after a divine attribute. This calendar, now universally adopted by Bahá'ís, provides a shared temporal framework that reinforces spiritual identity.
He who is the Lord of all names hath announced the appearance of this Most Great Name.
The Badí calendar is one of the most distinctive features of Bahá'í religious culture, creating a shared temporal identity across all national and cultural communities.
Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh
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- What the Bahá'í Faith says about habit and discipline
The calendar established by the Báb — nineteen months of nineteen days, each named for a divine attribute — is the structure underneath everything else, and Bahá'ís worldwide keep the same one. A habit anchored to a shared calendar does not depend on your remembering it.