Royapuram fire temple
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Jal Phiroj Clubwala Dar E Meher, popularly known as the Royapuram fire temple, is a Zoroastrian fire temple at Royapuram, Chennai, India. It was built in 1910 and donated to the Madras Parsi Zarthosti
Entrance of the Royapuram Fire Temple
Mobad
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A mobed, mowbed, or mobad is a Zoroastrian cleric of a particular rank. Unlike a herbad, a mobed is qualified to serve as celebrant priest at the Yasna ceremony and other higher liturgical ceremonies.
Royapuram fire temple
…1887, the Madras Parsi Panchayat started collecting monthly contributions from members in the region for a Mobed Fund, chiefly intended to maintain a mobed (priest) and to eventually establish a place of worship, for which a significant contribution was made by Sir Dinshaw Petit of Bombay in 1896. The…
Golden statuettes of two mobads, Oxus Treasure