Fire temple

Fire temple
آتشکده
Burning fire in the Fire Temple of Yazd. Yazd, Iran.
Religion
Affiliation	Zoroastrianism

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A fire temple or agiary (Gujarati: અગિયારી, romanized: agiyārī)^[a] is the place of worship for the followers of Zoroastrianism, the ancient religion of Persia.^[1][2][3] In Zoroastrianism, atar or fire, together with aban, water, 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".^[4] For, one "who sacrifices unto fire with fuel in his hand ..., is given happiness".^[5]

As of 2021^[update], there were 167 fire temples in the world, of which 45 were in Mumbai, 105 in the rest of India, and 17 in other countries.^[6][7] Of these only nine (one in Iran and eight in India) are the main temples known as Atash Behrams; the remaining are the smaller temples known as agiaries.

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