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Christmas in Singapore |
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Christmas is celebrated in Singapore with all the celebratory vigor and fanfare by the Christians and the non-Christians alike. Christmas is a national holiday in Singapore, eagerly awaited by the Singaporeans. Christmas is a very busy time for the retailers as it is the shopping season. Singaporeans observe Christmas the American way, feasting on turkey and going for elaborate Christmas decorations
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Duration of the Christmas festival
The Christmas is a 12 day festival which starts from the evening of 25th December, the Christmas day and continues till the epiphany on the 6th January.
Origin of the Christmas Festival
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The celebration of the Christmas through a period of 12 days is pretty old. Some Christians believe that the idea of celebrating Christmas over a period of 12 Days is taken from the Book of Matthews in the holy Bible. And others still suppose that the tradition flows down from the belief that it could have taken 12 days for the Magi to travel to the sacred place, Bethlehem to meet the new-born Jesus.
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Christmas celebrations in Singapore
The whole of the Orchard Road Shopping Street is wonderfully adorned with countless colorful lights and beautiful decorations from the middle of the November up till the New Year. A charitable group, known as the "Celebrating Christmas in Singapore Limited" staged a function in the Orchard Road during Christmas recently staging Christmas carols, parade and concert-shows. Singaporeans celebrate Christmas like the Americans dining on Turkeys and they also like to go for elaborate and splendid Christmas decorations. In 2007 thousands of Christmas revelers got a chance to enjoy the seven special Christmas floats driven across most parts of the city. The Christmas concluded with the Hallelujah chorus performed by the combined choir comprising 300 people. People who gathered at the Nativity Village in Singapore undoubtedly experienced the Divine blessings. Only 14% of the populations in Singapore are Christians and so the festival in Singapore is more of a commercial and secular nature.
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