The gleaming square building with an impressive colonnaded portico is the Dar-e-Mehr Zoroastrian Temple, or DMZT. It is the meeting place and sanctuary for some 1,000 followers of Zoroastrian ...

Noshir Dadrawala, a Zoroastrian scholar based in Mumbai ... who heads the most sacred fire temple, in Gujarat. “There was respect in priesthood earlier, but now people are opting out of it.” ...

According to tradition, the Zoroastrian god—Ahura Mazda—revealed the tenets of the religion to the prophet Zarathustra (Zoroaster in Greek) in Central Asia in the 2 nd millennium B.C ...

A former engineer from a Zoroastrian family in Canada, Bharda is now a women’s wellness coach. Because she’s married to a mobed at the Iranshah temple, she must observe the strictest purity ...

“He was a Zoroastrian, and the ziggurat is a Zoroastrian temple that is kind of designed to bring you closer to heaven,” Schold said. Zoroastrianism is one of the world’s oldest monotheistic ...

Zoroastrian architectural elements here blend with Sanskrit engravings dedicated to Shiva and Ganesha. This begs the question whether the temple should be considered Zoroastrian, Hindu or the ...

Several young Zoroastrian actors from India ... After more than a decade of planning, the association opened its fire temple, called the Bahandara Atash Kadeh, next to the center in 2019.

HYDERABAD: Officials of the Bai Maneckbai fire temple, a holy place for the Zoroastrian community, located in Abids, alleged that a popular restaurant had blocked the sewage line passing from ...

The fragrant holy fire, kept in a large bronze goblet, "has been burning for more than 1,500 years", said Simin, a tour guide welcoming visitors to the Zoroastrian fire temple in Iran's central ...