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Christmas in Kerala and Goa

Church-going women in Kerala and Goa wear sarees and traditional dress, with the kasavu and the chatta and mundu in Kerala.

Photomontage of Christmas season celebrations in several countries across the continents.
Photo: LLs, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

What is worn for Christmas in Kerala and Goa

Christmas is kept in Kerala, Goa, Mangalore and across the Christian communities of India, with midnight Mass and a family feast. In Kerala, the Syrian Christian (Nasrani) women's traditional dress is the chatta and mundu, a white blouse (chatta) worn with a white mundu pleated into a fan at the back, and many women now wear the white and gold kasavu saree to church. In Goa, the Catholic community dresses in sarees or Western clothes for Mass. Stars hang at the windows of the houses and cakes are baked weeks ahead.

The sarees

KasavuThe white and gold saree of Kerala, common for church.SariWorn by many Catholic women in Goa and Mumbai for Mass.
About this page

Written by the EveryPallu desk with AI assistance. Background: "Christmas in India" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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