The Tehran Zoroastrian Association held a ceremony to thank those who contributed to the 1403 and 1404 celebrations of the birth of Ashu Zarathushtra, the Mehregan festival, and the student Gahambar programs. As reported on the Association’s website, on the evening of Friday, 30 Aban 1404 (November 21, 2025), at Khosravi Hall, 250 individuals—from young children to senior members of the community—were acknowledged for their involvement in these events.
The ceremony extended appreciation to the children’s and teenagers’ prayer group of the Great Adrian Fire Temple of Tehran, the Zoroastrian storytelling and Shahnameh recitation group, pop, traditional, and regional music and dance performers, the students who organized the student Gahambars along with the mobeds and their assistants, participants in the Dari language and song challenge, organizers of cultural booths, children’s booths, and face painting, and those responsible for logistics, ceremonies, security, hospitality, guest reception, Haft-Sin and Mehregan arrangements, stage and venue design, filming, photography, editing, backstage planning and coordination, sound and lighting, as well as the heads and executive managers of the Association’s organizing teams. All supporters and benefactors were honored with tokens of appreciation for their efforts.
The ceremony further acknowledged the support of the Zoroastrian Students Association, the Zoroastrian Women’s Organization, the Tehran Mobeds Association, Zoroastrian schools in Tehran, the Secretariat of the Tehran Zoroastrian Association, and the Association’s Cultural, Public Relations, and Services Commissions. Appreciation was also extended to the executive boards of Markar Tehranpars, the Zoroastrian House of Culture and Arts, and the Great Adrian Fire Temple of Tehran, as well as those managing Zoroastrian cultural and artistic exhibition booths, Parvaresh Kindergarten, the Rasti Printing House, the Zoroastrian news outlets Amordad and Barsad, journalists, and the staff of Markar Tehranpars and Khosravi Hall. All benefactors and Zoroastrian institutions that assisted the Association in organizing these revered national and cultural celebrations were likewise thanked.
