The Arbab Rustam Guiv Dar-E-Mehr in New York is inaugurated. The Inauguration Ceremony shall be telecast live on youtube. The broadcast will start on Saturday March 26th, 2016 at 10:30 AM New York Time 8:00 PM Mumbai Time 7:00 PM Tehran Time The direct youtube link Courtesy : Hushang Vakil
Read moreMAKE no mistake! No single group of people contributed more to the development and refinement of pre-1947Karachi than the Parsi community. Be it Jamshed Nusserwanji or Kawasji Hormasji Katrak, be it Jehangir Kothari or Edulji Dinshaw, their unstinted generosity, their passion for making the city architecturally meaningful and their zeal for building worthwhile institutions and infrastructures resulted in turning Karachi
Read moreBuilding will be inaugurated on March 26th. Zoroastrians, or Zarathushtis as they are traditionally called, from the New York Tristate area, will come together to inaugurate a new religious and cultural center in Pomona, New York, on March 26. The new Arbab Rustam Guiv Dar-e-Mehr building is inspired by ancient Persian and Zoroastrian architecture of the fire temples of India.
Read moreWhen the Parsi agiyari in Sayajigunj recently celebrated its 90 years of existence, the entire building was cleaned and lit up by the community members. While many admired the spic and span agiyari, few knew that the fire temple management is finding it increasingly difficult to maintain and clean the huge building. The trustees have even begun looking for young
Read moreLike at this fire temple in Yazd, Central Iran, the eternal flame burns at all fire temples 24/7. Pic for representation only; Courtesy: Adam Jones/Creative Commons. A move to shift the 700-year-old holy fire from a shut Bharuch fire temple to a soon-to-open agiary in Kopar Khairane has sparked yet another battle between traditionalists and modernists in the Parsi community.
Read moreThe Bai Motlibai Wadia Adran at Jogeshwari is celebrating Golden Jubilee celebration of its re-enthronement at Malcolm Baug, Jogeshwari. On this occasion, a Jashan ceremony will be performed under the leadership of Revered Vada Dasturji Dr Firoze Meherji Kotval. Till December 2015, 112 Athornans have been ordained as Navars, and 15 have been ordained as Martabs, in this Adran
Read more‘Ruined’ Parsi Fire Temple In Kolkata Turned Into An Electrical Market The fire temple in Kolkata’s Ezra Street, which is Gothic in style with huge Tuscan pillars and dentil ornamentation is in a remorseful state. (Photo courtesy: Brian Paul Bach) The huge Rustomjee Cowasjee Banajee Agiary (Agiary – is a fire temple in which Parsi Zoroastrians pray) at 26
Read moreDar-E-Mehr Zoroastrian Temple New York CHEERS TO A NEW YEAR! LET’S CELEBRATE 2015 AND THE STEPPING STONES THAT HAVE PAVED THE WAY FOR A MOMENTOUS OPENING OF OUR NEW DAR-E-MEHR IN 2016! Phase l, our new Dar-e-Mehr building construction, is slowly but surely inching towards completion with help from each one of our 400+ donors – THANK YOU for sharing
Read moreArticle by Ervad K.N. Dastur was written in past. “PROMOTING AND PERPETUATING UDVADA AS A CULTURAL AND HERITAGE CENTRE.” WOULD YOU PLEASE PAUSE AND RECONSIDER? In Jam-e-Jamshed of 22-12-2002 Commissioner of Tourism, Government of Gujarat has published an announcement to the effect that the Central and the State Governments have sanctioned two grants of Rs. 97.27 lakhs and
Read moreIntroduction:- All of us have at several times in our life witnessed the Buoy ceremony of an Atash Behram and most of us have also offered the Machhi to the holy Padshah saheb on several occasions. Though we are always awe-struck with this intricate procedure at the time of change of geh, only a few of us actually understand
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