Fire in the heart – Azerbaijan celebrates Novruz

Dancing in the streets, resolving quarrels and paying tributes: Novruz, the spring festival of Persian origin, has been celebrated for over three millennia. Inaugurating a week-long public holiday, Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan turns into a center of festivities with a spectacular show of arts and crafts.

The Navroz Table

This detailed article on the Navroze Table appeared in the special Navroz Issue of Parsi Times. It is being reproduced here with their kind permission. Generously illustrated with appropriate pictures, it is a very valuable resource for those who wish to setup a Navroze Table in their homes. PARSI TIMES WANTS TO GIVE A SPECIAL [...]

Navroze at OZCF

This year’s OZCF  (Ontario Zoroastrian Community Foundation) Jamshedi Navroze function saw a huge turn out as over 500 attended the New Year’s celebration. Navroze marks the arrival of the Vernal Equinox, coinciding with the first day of Spring which signals the start of the new season after the long winter. The event has been celebrated for millennia by people [...]

Fire in the heart – Azerbaijan celebrates Novruz

Dancing in the streets, resolving quarrels and paying tributes: Novruz, the spring festival of Persian origin, has been celebrated for over three millennia.

Iranians celebrate end of New Year festival

Iran’s hard-line ruling clerics have discouraged many pre-Islamic rituals, but they’ve been unable to put Iranians off the Persian New Year, or Nowruz, and its ending celebration of Sizdeh Bedar. Iranians flocked to parks and orchards to mark Sizdeh Bedar, an ancient festival that predates Islam and goes back thousands of years to the time [...]

Reza Moridi Statement re Nowruz 3-20-12

Please watch Reza Modiri’s speech in Ontorio parliament about Nowruz 3750Z and Asho Zarathushtra’ s teachings. Courtesy : Rusi Sorabji

Naurooz in all its forms

Novruz, Nowrouz, Nooruz, Navruz, Nauroz, Nevruz Inscribed in 2009 (4.COM) on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity Country(ies): Azerbaijan, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan Identification Description Aperçu Novruz, Nowrouz, Nooruz, Navruz, Nauroz, Nevruz © Uzbekistan Ministry of Culture and Sports Novruz, Nowrouz, Nooruz, Navruz, Nauroz or Nevruz marks the [...]

Navroze Reports

7 Interesting Facts About Navroz! Navroz is simply speaking the Persian new year. Then why is it celebrated in India? Good question. That is because a sizable portion of Irani population who we call the Parsis have made India there home. So now Zoroastrian religion is a part of the wide spectrum of religions in [...]

History of Norooz

Happy NoeRouz (=New Day= Persian New Year)  to all Iranian and non Iranian friends. May you are blessed with divine or earthly blessings (whether you believe only in material world or a celestial one). May NoeRouz and spring blossom in your body heart and sould. Here is a video for you to know more about [...]

Setting the new Norouz Spread

I finally set up my Haft Seen yesterday. I was waiting for the gold fish to hit the Persian stores.  My Haft Seens have been slightly different every year but not drastically different as I always use the same little clear bowls.  I always like to make a small Haft Seen, that’s my thing. Click [...]

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