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Architect Dinyar Wadia said he was inspired by ancient Persian and Zoroastrian architecture of the fire temples of India and Iran. His plan was to evoke the architectural style of Persepolis ...
For decades, the terraces and architecture at this site puzzled ... According to a new study, the mysterious people may have been a Zoroastrian community living in Madagascar around 1,000 years ...
Ancient architecture at the Teniky site on Madagascar ... dated to the first millennium or earlier and attributed to Zoroastrian communities. Zoroastrianism, which originated in ancient Persia ...
initially doubted a link between Zoroastrians and the Teniky site. But “when you really look at the data, when you look at the architecture, it’s hard to find another plausible explanation ...
"Although I would like to stress that our interpretation linking the rock-cut architecture with Zoroastrian practices is tentative, the stylistic similarities of the stone basins and tables found ...
Khojeste Mistree of Mumbai (Bombay) is a known Zoroastrian scholar and historian. He is a self-proclaimed conservative member of India's tiny Zoroastrian Iranian or Parsi community, trying to uphold ...
As Baku continues to renew itself, it has become a beacon for architecture buffs ... the original structure could have been a pre-Islamic Zoroastrian temple that was converted into a defensive ...
Wadia, an architect and urban designer, was born in Mumbai, India, and moved to Brooklyn, New York, 25 years ago. He has been involved in Zoroastrian youth engagement since 2013. In 2019, he ...
NEW YORK (AP) — SOAS University’s Almut Hintze, a professor of Zoroastrianism, has described the global community as “microscopically small” and worries about the decline of Parsis in India.
NEW YORK (AP) — Among the world’s present-day religions, Zoroastrianism, founded more than 3,000 years ago, is one of the most ancient and historically influential. Yet even though its ...