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A Zoroastrian priest does not preach or hold sermons, but rather just tends to the fire. Fire Temple attendance is particularly high during seasonal celebrations (Gahambars), and especially for the New Year . The priesthood is trigradal. The chief priest of each temple has the title of dastur. Consecration to this rank relieves him of the ...
Atar is already evident in the Gathas, the oldest texts of the compendium of the Avesta and believed to have been composed by Zoroaster himself. At this juncture, as in the Yasna Haptanghaiti (the seven-chapter Yasna that structurally interrupts the Gathas and is linguistically as old as the Gathas themselves), atar is still—with only one exception—an abstract concept simply an instrument ...
A modern Zoroastrian fire temple in Western India Sadeh in Tehran, 2011. Zoroastrianism has survived into the modern period, particularly in India, where the Parsis are thought to have been present since about the 9th century. [155] Today Zoroastrianism can be divided in two main schools of thought: reformists and traditionalists.
In the religion of Zoroastrianism, fire is a sign of purity and truth, and Ardibehesht (in New Persian the second month of the Zoroastrian calendar [1]) is its guardian. Ancient Iranian legends attribute the discovery of lighting a fire with two stones to King Hushang of Pishdadian dynasty .
Majūs (Arabic: مجوس) or Magūs (Persian: مگوش) was originally a term meaning Zoroastrians, specifically priests. [1] It was a technical term for the magi, [2] [3] and like its synonym gabr (of uncertain etymology) originally had no pejorative implications. [4] It is also translated as "fire worshipper". [5]
Adur Gushnasp (Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭲𐭥𐭫𐭩 𐭦𐭩 𐭢𐭱𐭭𐭮𐭯 ʾtwly ZY gšnsp [1] Ādur ī Gušnasp; New Persian: آذرگشسب Āzargušasb) [2] was the name of a Zoroastrian sacred fire of the highest grade (Atash Behram), which served as one of the three most sacred fires of pre-Islamic Iran; [3] the two others being the Adur Farnbag and Adur Burzen-Mihr. [4]
A fire temple, Agiary, Atashkadeh (Persian: آتشکده), Atashgah (آتشگاه) or Dar-e Mehr (در مهر) is the place of worship for the followers of Zoroastrianism, the ancient religion of Iran . [1] [2] [3] In the Zoroastrian religion, fire (see atar), together with clean water (see aban), are agents of ritual
The temple was built in 1924 during the reign of Reza Shah Pahlavi, and the fire contained in it was transferred from India to this place and is said to originate from Adur Farnbag, one of the three holiest fires in Sasanian times. [1] [4] The idea to make the place a museum was first expressed in 1983. In 2005 the museum was finally inaugurated.