Fire temple and Dharamshala of Parsi Anjuman, Delhi

Zoroastrain Fire temple and Mengusi Parsi Dharamshala in Delhi. A fire temple in Zoroastrianism is the place of worship for Zoroastrians. In the Zoroastrian religion, fire (see Atar), together with clean water (see Aban), are agents of ritual purity. Clean, white “ash for the purification ceremonies [is] regarded as the basis of ritual life,“ which, “are essentially the rites proper to the tending of a domestic fire, for the temple [fire] is that of the hearth fire raised to a new solemnity“ (Boyce, 1975:4