The Alpaiwala Museum in Mumbai city traces the origins and history of the fast-dwindling Parsi community.

Mumbai's second oldest Parsi fire temple, the Maneckji Nowroji Sett Agiary in Fort, first established on June 19, 1733, has been restored to its resplendent glory. On Sunday, April 20, 2025, the ...

A burning fire is shown in the Bhandara Atash Kadeh, 8787 West Airport Road, a Zoroastrian fire temple, Friday, March 22, 2019, in Houston.

In 1961, a Dar-e-Mehr (fire temple) was finally established in the capital. Even today the fire temple, located near Delhi Gate, remains the only place of collective worship for the Parsis in the ...

And despite the Aryan connection, neither can the Hindus enter the Parsi agiary, nor can the Parsis enter orthodox Hindu temples, in the 21st century. The writer is the author of 50 books on ...

There's a buzz among Parsis of Hyderabad on the eve of the 175th anniversary of the Seth Viccaji-Seth Pestonji Meherji Parsi Fire Temple in Secunderabad on Sunday. Though a miniscule community ...

Khurshed Dastoor, a Parsi high priest who heads a sacred fire temple in Gujarat, India, at his home in Mumbai on Oct. 10, 2023. (RNS photo/Priyadarshini Sen) ...

Amidst Royapuram's chaos, lies the 115-yr-old Parsi Anjuman Baug Dharamshala. Historians discuss its unique architecture, while Darius Bahadurji, President of the Anjuman. We also explore the ...

Two of the museum's most compelling exhibits are replicas of a Tower of Silence and a Parsi fire temple. The Tower of Silence, or dakhma, is where Parsis leave their dead to be returned to nature ...