Public holidays · 2025
Dormition of the Mother of God falls on Friday, 15 August 2025 in Cyprus in 2025.
A public holiday across Cyprus: most employees have the day off.
In 2025 it falls on a Friday, a working day.
Fixed date: it is on the same day of the year every year (15 Aug).
Saturday and Sunday · A public holiday does not always close every business. Essential services, shops and some industries keep working, and pay rules differ by country and contract.
The Dormition of the Mother of God, or Falling Asleep of the Theotokos, is one of the twelve great feasts of the Orthodox year and the last of them in the church year, which begins on 1 September. It commemorates the death of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and her being taken up to her son. Icons of the feast show the apostles gathered around Mary on her deathbed and Christ holding her soul as a small child. The Dormition corresponds to the Catholic Assumption, which falls on the same date.
The feast is preceded by a strict fast from 1 to 14 August. In Greece it is one of the most important holidays of the summer, with pilgrimages to the church of Panagia Evangelistria on the island of Tinos and to many other shrines, and village festivals called panigyria. In Romania it is Sfânta Maria Mare, and people named Maria or Marian celebrate their name day. Many monasteries hold large pilgrimages on the day.
Everywhere in Cyprus.
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A public holiday across Cyprus: most employees have the day off.
Friday, 15 August 2025.