At the age of nine, while his friends spent their evenings playing computer games and watching cartoon shows, Dinshaw Magol was memorising religious texts and learning Zoroastrian priestly rituals. By Reetika Subramanian, Hindustan Times In a span of three years, Magol, now 12, completed the three degrees of Zoroastrian priesthood study including ‘Navar’, ‘Maratab’ and… Continue reading 12-yr-old can now perform rituals at Udvada fire temple
Category: Atashbehram & Agiary
Sacred fire gives life to a dying heritage
Around 200 kilometres north of Mumbai, there is a small town called Udwada. Sitting calmly facing the Arabian Sea, Udwada houses one of the oldest burning fire temples in the world. Although its history is not as old as the nearby town Sanjan, where the Parsis first settled, there is something about Udwada that even… Continue reading Sacred fire gives life to a dying heritage
Mhow and Dahanu Agiaries Celebrate their Salgreh
Today is Adar Roj nd Sherevar Mahino, YZ 1381. Tuesday, 24th Jan 2010. The agiaries of Mhow, Madhya Pradesh and Dahanu, Maharashtra celebrate their Salgrehs. Mhow (Indore) Agiary : The Mhow Anjuman Daremeher (Adarian) was consecrated in the year YZ 1215 ( 5 March 1846) and is thus 165 years old today. The History panel… Continue reading Mhow and Dahanu Agiaries Celebrate their Salgreh
For Navi Mumbai Parsis, fire temple a distant dream
Unable to raise enough money to buy land for their first fire temple in Navi Mumbai, Parsi-Zoroastrians have asked the government to extend the deadline for payment by a month. By Manoj Nair | DNA India The community has been allotted a plot in Koparkhairane by CIDCO, the local planning agency at a cost of… Continue reading For Navi Mumbai Parsis, fire temple a distant dream
Calcutta Agiary Celebrates 100 years
The centenary celebrations of Calcutta’s only fire temple or agiari in operation at 91 Metcalfe Street, or Bandook Gali, began with a ceremony both warm and colourful early on Tuesday. The city’s Parsi population may have shrunk to 600-strong but they were present in full force at the Late Ervad Dhunjeebhoy Byramjee Mehta’s Zoroastrian Anjuman… Continue reading Calcutta Agiary Celebrates 100 years
The consecration of a new Afarganyu for a Daremeher
Dear friend and Panthaki Saheb of the Behram Baug Daremeher, Ervad Marzban J. Hathiram has a very nice article about the consecration of a new Afarganyu for the Ustad Saheb Behramshah Nowroji Shroff Daremeher Readers of Frashogard would recall that I had written about the deeply mystical significance of the Afarganyu which holds the Atash… Continue reading The consecration of a new Afarganyu for a Daremeher
Udvada Pak Iranshah Under Threat
The Udvada Samast Anjuman would like to inform community members all over the world, about the possible threat that our sacred Shreeji Pak Iranshah is presently facing. The tenure of a huge plot of land, around 200 acres, situated directly behind our most sacred Shreeji Pak Iranshah Atashbehram is in the process of being changed… Continue reading Udvada Pak Iranshah Under Threat
