Dare-Mehr in Dallas
Pictures of the prayer hall of the newly opened Zoroastrian Center & Dare-Mehr in Dallas, USA COURTESY – PORAS BALSARA, USA
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Dallas Dar-e-Meher Inauguration
It is with great pleasure for us to forward you the attached account of the Dallas Dar-e-Meher Inauguration with the first ever Vendidad Sade prayers in NA, an inauguration Baj and Jashan and Dadgah Fire enthronement. Hope you all enjoy the account and feel proud that one more built from scratch Dar-e-Meher is now operational. Let us all wish ZANT
Read moreThana Agiary Project
AGIARY LANE, AGIARY COMPOUND, TEMBHI NAKA, THANE, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA, 400601 PH: 91-22- 25378103 AN APPEAL FOR RECONSTRUCTING 231 YEARS OLD AGIARY AT THANE. (NEAR BOMBAY) DEAR FELLOW ZORASTRIAN PHILANTHROPISTS, Our Cowasji Jahangirji Patell Agiary-Adarian with the community Hall known as Agiary’s Anjuman otla even while it was in an extremely dilapidated condition towards the end, stood truly tall for 230
Read moreThe Fire Temple of Baku
The History of an Atashgah rooted in the time of the Sassanid’s In the Absheron peninsula of Azerbaijan, there are many places where the fire comes up from the underground. The earliest mentions of this phenomenon were noted by Priscus in 5th century, by Al-Istakhri and Mas’udi in the 7th-10th centuries. Zoroastrians lived in the Transcaucasia from the Achaemenian times
Read more1290th birthday of Iranshah
Gujarat’s Parsi community gear up to celebrate 1290th birthday of Iranshah The high priests ofthe Parsi community and eminent Parsis showered lavish praises on the state government and assured that the community was and will always remain a proud part of Gujarat. A large number of eminent Parsis descended on Gandhinagar on Wednesday to take part in a function. The
Read moreShreeji Pak Iranshah Under Threat – latest update
Udvada Samast Anjuman has earlier on October 21, 2010 and November 02, 2011 released updates to the media on the threat faced to Shreeji Pak Iranshah by the proposed commercial / residential development. Before we provide an update on the developments to date (February 09, 2011), it is necessary for us to mention that Udvada Samast Anjuman does not subscribe
Read moreFirst Traditional Dadgah in the Western World
My friend, Aspi Colah has been spearheading the MYZD Group – have a look at the website – http://www.myzdgroup.org Also the video is ready for your viewing pleasure…so crank up the volume and enjoy. For those of you who still have the fire within you still smoldering with passion…this will make the hair on your back stand up.
Read moreUdvada: The Land Controversy – 2
Dear Sir, 15 days I’m sure you must have seen the MID DAY report, which was forwarded to me by a friend in Mumbai. While the report is dated 15th November I was in Udwada on the 13th, just two days earlier, on perhaps my last pilgrimage to this Holiest of the Holy Zoroastrian Fire Temple. The IRANSHAH. After the
Read moreUdvada: The Land Controversy
It’s a change of different sort, a not-so-nice one, where one of the world’s most ancient religions finds its nook of worship threatened. Parsi-Irani Zoroastrians in India and around the world have been a worried lot after 200 acres of lush agricultural land in the backyard of Udvada’s sacred fire temple were handed over to a private developer to set
Read moreParsi community in Chennai celebrates 100 years of fire temple
Burning Bright:The flame has never been extinguished at the Royapuram fire temple. CHENNAI: The Parsi community here is celebrating the centenary of the fire temple at Royapuram here where the flame has never been extinguished. When Master Jal, the young son of philanthropist Phiroj M. Clubwala died, the grieving family decided to get a fire temple constructed in his memory
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