Our vey dear friends Benafsha Shroff, Dinsha Mistree and Jamsheed Mistri have just launched their new initiative Agiary Connect. Agiary Connect is a website that allows one to book services that will be performed by mobeds in Mumbai at the Banaji Limji Agiary in Fort. Per the website Request Prayer Services From Anywhere Support hardworking… Continue reading Agiary Connect Launches New Website In Time for Muktad
Category: Atashbehram & Agiary
Silvern Journey: The Story of the Afarganyu of the Sukkur Agiary
Recently we had carried an article about the erstwhile Sukkur Agiary in Pakistan. Our dear friend Nerina Rustomji sent us an article she had authored more than two decades ago. This was published on April 10, 1998 in the program book on the occasion of the opening of the Zarathushti Heritage & Cultural Center, in… Continue reading Silvern Journey: The Story of the Afarganyu of the Sukkur Agiary
Parsi Agiary and Dharamsala In Sukkur Pakistan
The Endowment Trust Fund of Sindh shares… The Zoroastrian Agiary or fire temple of Parsi community on Wallace Road near river Indus is an extensive building compound built in 1923. An old memorial stone on the Agiary or the fire temple inscribe “Mama Parsi Worship Place”. The temple building is in the possession of some… Continue reading Parsi Agiary and Dharamsala In Sukkur Pakistan
Agiaries, other religious sites, must be fire-safe
This has evinced shock and anger in the tiny, enterprising community not just in Mumbai but elsewhere too. Community members claim they know of at least three to four more cases where priests have been burnt because of the fire within the temples Ervad Nozer B Vajifdar This paper ran a report about a tragic… Continue reading Agiaries, other religious sites, must be fire-safe
Zoroastrian Association of California Celebrates the 3rd Salgreh of their Atashkadeh
The 3rd Salgreh of the Zoroastrian Association of California‘s Atash Kadeh was celebrated with great religious fervor on November 13, 2019 A maachi was offered at all five gehs. Two of which were Hama Anjuman Machis, of one kg each of pure Sandalwood, offered to the holy fire in Havan and Aiwishruthem gehs. Followed by… Continue reading Zoroastrian Association of California Celebrates the 3rd Salgreh of their Atashkadeh
Mumbai Muktad Diaries 2019
During the recent 10 day farvandian/muktad days I posted some observations on social media. Below is a compilation of all the posts. Many of the images were in black and white, but a lot of people requested I also post the color images. So in those cases I have posted both. Batliwala Agiary, Tardeo, Mumbai… Continue reading Mumbai Muktad Diaries 2019
100-year-old sacred fire to be relocated from Bharuch to Navi Mumbai
A 27-year-old dispute within the Parsi community came to an end last week, after the Supreme Court (SC) allowed the Atash Adaran — a 100-year-old grade-two fire — at Pestonji Aslaji Doongaji Agiary in Bharuch, Gujarat to be relocated to the Shirinbai and Khurshedji Hormusji Doongaji Daremeher at Kopar Khairane in Navi Mumbai. This is… Continue reading 100-year-old sacred fire to be relocated from Bharuch to Navi Mumbai
