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Monday, 21 September 2026Local news from Bengaluru, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

Festivals & feasts in Bengaluru

Temple festivals, church feasts and mosque celebrations across Bengaluru city — what’s coming first. Dates for lunar-calendar festivals are confirmed by each temple a few weeks ahead; we mark the ones still to be announced.

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24 Dec
⛪ Church Bengaluruin 94 days

Christmas

St Mary’s Basilica, St Mark’s Cathedral and churches citywide
24 December – 25 December 2026

Midnight Mass at St Mary’s Basilica, Shivajinagar; carol services through December on Brigade Road and in Frazer Town.

4 Jan
⛪ Church Viveknagarin 105 days

Feast of the Infant Jesus

Infant Jesus Shrine, Viveknagar
4 January – 14 January 2027

Ten days of novena ending on the 14 January feast; one of the city’s largest gatherings, with Thursday crowds year-round.

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26 Mar
⛪ Church Bengaluruin 186 days

Good Friday & Easter

Churches citywide
26 March – 28 March 2027

Good Friday 26 March, Easter Sunday 28 March 2027. Way of the Cross processions in Shivajinagar and Cooke Town.

30 Aug
⛪ Church Shivajinagarin 343 days

Feast of St Mary’s Basilica

St Mary’s Basilica, Shivajinagar
30 August – 8 September 2027

Nine days of novena ending on the Nativity of Mary, 8 September, with the chariot procession through Shivajinagar.

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Dates are updated as temples and churches announce them. Tell us if we have one wrong.