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Kurdish Nowruz Sanandaj in Sanandaj
Sanandaj marks the shared March 21 new year with evening bonfires, widespread Kurdish traditional dress, and dohol-and-sorna musical processions along the Ferdowsi pedestrian street, framing the day explicitly as an expression of Kurdish Newroz and cultural identity rather than as a generic national Nowruz observance.
Kurdish communities across Sanandaj mark Newroz on March 21 with bonfires lit the evening before, a ritual meant to symbolize winter's dark season passing into the light of spring, following a practice common across Kurdish regions of both Iran and neighboring countries.