page_title: Gozaria
section_title: Festivals
hierarchical_section_title: Gozaria / Culture / Festivals
caption_attribution_description: English: Rathyatra at Gozaria.
context_page_description: Gozaria is a town and a gram panchayat in Mehsana district in the Indian state of Gujarat.
context_section_description: Gozaria enjoys a thriving cultural tradition, being the centre of Gujarati cultural activities and diverse traditions of different ethnic and religious communities. Popular celebrations and observances include Uttarayan—an annual kite-flying day on 14 and 15 January. The nine nights of Navratri are celebrated with people performing Garba—the folk dance of Gujarat—at venues across the city. The festival of lights—Deepavali is celebrated with the lighting of lamps in every house, the decorating the floors with the rangoli and the bursting of firecrackers. Other festivals such as Holi and Ganesh Chaturthi are celebrated with enthusiasm. The annual Rath Yatra procession on the Ashadh-sud-bij date of the Hindu calendar.
  Apart from this, Gozaria Follows a tradition from decades of Mahakali Garba on next day of Dashera where from Midnight to 2.30 a.m., thousands of villagers gathers at Tarpoj Area to see this miraculous tradition which is also telecast  live on local TV networks and websites.
caption: Rathyatra at Gozaria village
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