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The Divine Trail Gujarat has for long attracted visitors from distant lands in search of trade, empire, or refuge. Together ...
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 ...
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 ...
The museum has a replica of a fire temple, which non-Parsis are not allowed to enter [BBC] An installation depicts the living conditions of Iranian Zoroastrians in Yazd [BBC] ...
Mumbai’s Second Oldest Parsi Fire Temple Restored;By the end of the nineteenth century, the agiary was dilapidated and it was rebuilt in 1891 in a style that blends Greek, Roman, and Persian ...
People from the Parsi community celebrate Navroz in special ways. They decorate their house with flower garlands swinging from the doors. They wear new clothes and visit the Zoroastrian fire temple.
Plan your Navroz 2025 trip! Find the best places in India to celebrate Parsi New Year, including Mumbai, Udvada, Kolkata, Bangalore and Pune.
Preserving the Parsi-Gujarati language A Russian linguist is chronicling a dialect of Parsi-Gujarati before it dies out India’s Parsi community is a small one, numbering to about 57,000 people ...
Royapuram Parsi Fire Temple, Chennai The Royapuram Parsi Temple, famously known as Jal Phiroj Clubwala Dar-e Mehr, is one of the most prominent and sole Parsi temples in Chennai.
Suggestion to shut down fire temple comes after former trustee of Bombay Parsi Punchayet wrote in community newspaper that community should sell off some of its 48 fire temples and use money from ...
In Parsi tradition, only the sons of priests can become priests. A mobed may make only 50,000 rupees a year, Karanjia explained—about $600, a meager sum even in the poorest parts of India—and ...