The Easter celebration observed on Sunday across the country amidst festivity and joy as elsewhere in the world.
People were found to celebrate the festival with their family members and dearest ones and exchanged gifts and greeting cards.
They wore new Easter clothes and lit bonfire on Saturday, the Easter eve. Bonfire originated from an old belief of turning the witches aside.
All the government, semi-government and private offices including bank remained closed from Friday to Monday and resume on Tuesday.
Many markets and shopping malls remain open for limited hours in separate schedules during the holidays while many remained closed.
The business organisations decide their own opening hours as retail opening hours have been de-regulated during the recent years.
Easter Sunday observed all over the country on the last day of the week as elsewhere the globe commemorating the religious believe of Christian community about Jesus Christ's resurrection from the dead after his crucifixion.
According to Christianity, Easter culminates the passion of Jesus which is preceded by the season of Lent, a forty-day period of fasting, prayer and penance.
Easter Day is celebrated in the Christian world as a festival marking Jesus rose from the dead and lives forever.
Jesus had told his followers before his arrest that he would be crucified and on the third day he would rise from the dead. Sunday was the third day from the Good Friday.
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Source: www.dailyfinland.fi
