{"id":134820,"date":"2022-07-22T17:40:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T13:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amordadnews.com\/?p=134820"},"modified":"2022-12-27T14:30:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T11:00:37","slug":"mid-spring-gahanbar-ceremony-in-narges-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/?p=134820","title":{"rendered":"Mid-spring gahanbar ceremony in Narges House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Taft and Environs Zoroastrian Association (based in Tehran) held the first gahanbar of the year virtually. The Maidyozarem Gahambar (mid-spring) ceremony was held in July and May of the Zoroastrian calendar, equal to Monday, 2 May 2022, at 5:00 PM in Narges&#8217;s house Mobed Farzad Lohrasbi performed the prayers in the name of &#8220;all souls&#8221; (hamaravanan).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Watch the replay of the event at https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/amordad.news\/.<\/p>\n<p>Maidyozarem gahanbar is the first gahanbar of the year, and according to Zoroastrian beliefs, it is the time when the skies were created.\u00a0 The dates for this chahreh of gahanbar in the official calendar are 10-14 May.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-134821 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/25-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/25-1-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/25-1-1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, 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\/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-134877 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/18-4-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/18-4-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/18-4-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-134879 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/29-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/29-1-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/29-1-1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Photos by Homayoun Mehrzad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taft and Environs Zoroastrian Association (based in Tehran) held the first gahanbar of the year virtually. The Maidyozarem Gahambar (mid-spring) ceremony was held in July and May of the Zoroastrian calendar, equal to Monday, 2 May 2022, at 5:00 PM in Narges&#8217;s house Mobed Farzad Lohrasbi performed the prayers in the name of &#8220;all souls&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zoroastrians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}