"Those festivals are not at all identified with Islam," an authority at the religious issues service said.
Security organizations have been coordinated to stay alarm to stop any social occasions.
Nonnatives are allowed to check the Christian occasion in their own particular homes, however lodgings and other open spots have been precluded from denoting the day.
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"Having Muslims observe Christmas in Somalia is not the proper thing, such things are much the same as the deserting," neighborhood media cite Mohamed Kheyrow, a top authority at Somalia's equity and religious issues service, as saying.
Journalists say as the nation recoups from years of common war, a developing number of Somalis who experienced childhood in the diaspora are returning home, some of them carrying Western traditions with them.
Christmas is not broadly celebrated in Somalia, which authoritatively received Sharia in 2009, however the odd occasion was held - particularly as a reason to hold a gathering.
Mogadishu's chairman, Yusuf Hussein Jimale, told the BBC that such social occasions may likewise be an objective for the Islamist al-Shabab bunch that has focused on inns in the city before.
Festivities will be permitted at UN mixes and bases for African Union peacekeepers, who are in the nation to back the administration's battle against the al-Qaeda-connected activists.
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