Mumbai : Prove Fire Temple Is Important To You, State Tells Parsis

[Sinnerman108]

Wow.. Thats amazing, And the architecture stunning, Btw are there any remnants of Parsies or Zoroastrians in modern day Pakistan ? They survived in Iran and India so i reckon there must be a footprint in Pakistan as well.. Given that even tiny Sri Lanka have a sprinkling of Parsi's

Yes there are,
albeit very small.

 

[padamchen]

You do know I speak Urdu, and thus understand most of Farsi words.
so unless it is from old Paras no need to translate.

Sorry bro. I'm just copy pasting relevant sections from the Zoroastrian Heritage website.

Cheers, Doc

 

[Sinnerman108]

Yes. I had family in Lahore Cantt from dad's side. They are now in the US with some kids in Europe. Met some uncles and aunts once in a Navjote in Mumbai when I was a kid.

And Karachi like Bombay is a Parsi hub. They have a Tower of Silence there too if I'm not mistaken.

Cheers, Doc

Yes they do.
Karachi has a lot of buildings designed by old Parsi architects.
It is in fact a house in old Karachi I stayed in in 2002, that drove me in this direction.

 

[padamchen]

Yes they do.
Karachi has a lot of buildings designed by old Parsi architects.
It is in fact a house in old Karachi I stayed in in 2002, that drove me in this direction.

I'm interested to know which words you could understand / did not need a translation for because of Urdu?

None of them are common to Hindi (or the Gujarati that we speak as our mother tongue).

Cheers, Doc

 

[Gibbs]

Yes there are,
albeit very small.

es. I had family in Lahore Cantt from dad's side. They are now in the US with some kids in Europe. Met some uncles and aunts once in a Navjote in Mumbai when I was a kid.

And Karachi like Bombay is a Parsi hub. They have a Tower of Silence there too if I'm not mistaken.

Cheers, Doc

Awesome.. I admire the perseverance and success in many fields against the odds of the the Parsi community, Just hope they would lessen the restrictions of intermarriage so that there would be future generations and not disappear altogether

 

[padamchen]

Awesome.. I admire the perseverance and success in many fields against the odds of the the Parsi community, Just hope they would lessen the restrictions of intermarriage so that there would be future generations and not disappear altogether

My God, that's not going to happen man! lol

Just came from Udvada and saw the Ground Zero super priesthood.

One of the girls was wearing a shortish dress. She was sent back to the dharamshala to put on something more modest (apparently they have old fashioned lehgas too if you so wish .... lol)

One photographer got too close to get a shot of the two little boys entering the Iransha with the head priests. And there was some serious eye popping and finger wagging that ensued.

Its not going to happen bro ...

Its a very ancient and very secretive and closely guarded Vatican-hood out there.

Cheers, Doc

 

[Soumitra]

If possible the metro alignment should be shifted . Parsis are one of the great minority communities in India who are working for the growth and development of the country.

If alignment can't be shifted then we could try to move the fire temple but it should be the last resort

 

[Jackdaws]

Grew up with a lot of Parsi friends. They love their well preserved cars. You still see the odd ad in a paper about "Parsi owned" vehicle - because it means that it would fetch a premium in the used car market.

I have personally fought against a lot of the noise pollution in Mumbai and this Metro thing has not affected me yet. A Parsi acquaintance's bakery had to make way for the Metro too.

And most judges in Bombay High Court are completely anti Government. There is no way they are going to let the Metro work affect the fire temples.

 

[Sam.]

Viva la parsi

@padamchen do you need help friend ?
We can do dharna on Jantar mantar together.

 

[padamchen]

Viva la parsi

@padamchen do you need help friend ?
We can do dharna on Jantar mantar together.

Till a few years ago, we thought we only had friends.

Cheers, Doc

 

[KapitaanAli]

My state currently has only two Parsi families in two different districts. But there's a 200 year old temple looked after by one of them.

The other family is essentially two women who stayed unmarried because they didn't want to leave the state.

 

[padamchen]

My state currently has only two Parsi families in two different districts. But there's a 200 year old temple looked after by one of them.

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Where is this bro?

Cheers, Doc

 

[Tps43]

Atash Dadgah.

Fire court?

 

[KapitaanAli]

Where is this bro?

Cheers, Doc

Kozhikode, Keralam.

Anjuman Baug.

 

[padamchen]

Fire court?

Literally ya ....

Fire temples would double up as prayer areas, courts for community disputes, teaching schools for kids to learn about the faith, even small hospitals.

Cheers, Doc

Kozhikode, Keralam.

Anjuman Baug.

Its beautiful.

Cheers, Doc