Easter in Ohrid ("Hair Burning Night")
03/04/2010 - 05/04/2010
Place of event: Ohrid
Probably Ohrid never looks so mystical and charming as it does the night before Easter on the 3th of April this year, when thousands of people get together in the local churches at midnight for the ceremony of sacred communion waiting to be blessed by red wine and bread.
It is a custom that everybody lights a candle and walks with the candle back to one's home. The candle must be burning all the time. All the streets of Ohrid are filled with thousands of people walking with burning candles and it looks like the entire city is in a kind of religious trance.
Since the churches are being packed with hundreds of people holding the burning candles in their hands, sometimes people's hair gets burned from the candles so this event is popularly called the "hair burning night". Definitely, it is worth being in Ohrid for Easter for this event!
It is a custom that everybody lights a candle and walks with the candle back to one's home. The candle must be burning all the time. All the streets of Ohrid are filled with thousands of people walking with burning candles and it looks like the entire city is in a kind of religious trance.
Since the churches are being packed with hundreds of people holding the burning candles in their hands, sometimes people's hair gets burned from the candles so this event is popularly called the "hair burning night". Definitely, it is worth being in Ohrid for Easter for this event!
