Adar mah YZ 1381. Salgrehs

Baname Khuda!   Dear Zarathushti humdins.   Adar month of the year YZ 1381 has begun since the last 2 days. Today on Wed, 17th April is Ardibehest roz.   Obviously Adar Yazad being a Hamkar of Ardibehest Ahmeshaspand, we have some Salgrehs of Agairies today.   In this whole Adar mah, we have as [...]

Agiary in Ichhapore

I shall be thankful to receive your assistance/guidance in the foll. Matter. There is an agiary – now a dadgah –  in village Ichhapore, dist. Bhatha, Post Surat in gujrat, known as Powwalla Agiary (does not know full name).  There are still few parsee families residing in the village and looking after the agiary.  The agiary premises is [...]

Kurds Open Zoroastrian Temple in Sweden

The first Kurdish Zoroastrian temple, Agri Temple or “Temple of Fire,” will open its doors for believers of the faith on the Kurdish New Year, Newroz. The center is located north of the Swedish capital, Stockholm. Inside the temple, there is the holy fire and paintings of Zoroaster and Ahura Mazda, the Zoroastrian god. Texts [...]

A peek inside Delhi’s fire temple

One of my Parsi friends standing next to me whispered, “You are going to be part of our history! It is the first time that the Parsi prayers are being performed out in the open for the Non-Parsis to be a part of them.” It was a revelatory moment for me to see the Parsi [...]

Parsi (Zoroastrian) Fire Temple, Calcutta (Kolkata)

The present fire temple of Anjuman Atash Adran was established in 1912 by  Ervad Dhunjeebhoy Byramjee Mehta and operates to this day. Anjuman Atash Adran Temple is located on the Metcalfe Street (Popularly called the Bandook Gali) in the Boubazar area of Central Calcutta (Kolkata). The Parsi are fire worshipers and the holy flame eternally [...]

100 years of Calcutta’s only Parsi fire temple

The centenary celebrations of Calcutta’s only fire temple or agiari in operation at 91 Metcalfe Street, or Bandook Gali, began with a ceremony both warm and colourful early on Tuesday. The city’s Parsi population may have shrunk to 600-strong but they were present in full force at the Late Ervad Dhunjeebhoy Byramjee Mehta’s Zoroastrian Anjuman [...]

Zoroastrian Center of North Texas

ZANT Center Inaugural Prayers-Article – Click Here to read   Some pictures for your viewing pleasure

Other Directories

 OTHER DIRECTORIES – all at www.theparsidirectory.com   List of Parsi Institutions Worldwide Wedding, Navjote, Sagan Scholarships Zoroastrian Agiyaris-Atash Behrams on Google maps Zoroastrian Darb-e-Mehrs in USA List of Mumbai Agiaries and Atash Behrams List of Parsi Dharamshalas and Sanatoria List of Zoroastrians, Worldwide Mobebs in North America List of Parsi Caterers Worldwide If anyone has [...]

Aslaji inscription

Attaching a pic of the commemorative slab on the agiary otla. The first paragraph translated reads roughly as In the year 1855 Aslaji Bhikhaji in his private Orchard built a Dar-e-Meher for his family and private use. After his Demise his spouse Dosibai sold this place with the Dar-e-Meher to her Nephew Jehangirji Bejonji Vakil [...]

Points to be observed while visiting Fire Temple

           20 POINTS TO BE OBSERVED WHILE VISITING A FIRE TEMPLE   Necessary decorum and discipline: 1. One should bathe (preferably a head bath) before going to the Atashbehram or Agiary, and try his best, as far as possible, after a bath, not to come into contact with other things; this is more so whilst going [...]

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