{"id":158521,"date":"2025-07-09T19:09:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/?p=158521"},"modified":"2025-07-09T19:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:39:30","slug":"commemoration-of-the-ancient-gahanbar-ceremony-and-tirgan-in-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/?p=158521","title":{"rendered":"Commemoration of the Ancient Gahanbar\u00a0Ceremony and Tirgan in San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Gahanbar ceremony of Chehre Maidh-yo-shema and the Tirgan festival were jointly celebrated by Zoroastrians living in San Diego, USA, in a local park.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, June 29, 2025 (8 Tir 1404), the Gahanbar group held the Maidh-yo-shema Gahanbar and Tirgan celebrations. Mobeds Fariborz Shahzadi, Dr. Bahram Firouzgar, and Anousheh Bastani led the Avesta ceremony for the Gahanbar. Mehri Shahzadi gave a brief talk about the history of the Tirobad wristbands to attendees.<\/p>\n<p>After the ceremony, participants enjoyed traditional treats including Lork, sliced fruits, halva, and kamaj. Lunch was served family-style. Most attendees celebrated Tirgan by playfully sprinkling water on one another.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the afternoon, a group of participants joined a nature walk led by a park expert, learning about the local plants and environment. Other activities the traditional chak-o-duleh (luck in the jar) and recitations of Hafez\u2019s poetry. The strong and heartfelt participation of Zoroastrian and Iranian community members made the celebration especially meaningful.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-158522 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-01-at-6.10.28-PM-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-01-at-6.10.28-PM-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-01-at-6.10.28-PM.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-158523 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-01-at-6.10.28-PM-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-01-at-6.10.28-PM-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-01-at-6.10.28-PM-2.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-158524 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-01-at-6.10.27-PM-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-01-at-6.10.27-PM-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-01-at-6.10.27-PM.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-158525 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/3066a79e-c449-4228-9e08-717d8590d98b-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/3066a79e-c449-4228-9e08-717d8590d98b-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/3066a79e-c449-4228-9e08-717d8590d98b.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gahanbar ceremony of Chehre Maidh-yo-shema and the Tirgan festival were jointly celebrated by Zoroastrians living in San Diego, USA, in a local park. On Sunday, June 29, 2025 (8 Tir 1404), the Gahanbar group held the Maidh-yo-shema Gahanbar and Tirgan celebrations. Mobeds Fariborz Shahzadi, Dr. Bahram Firouzgar, and Anousheh Bastani led the Avesta ceremony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":158526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[948,252],"class_list":["post-158521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zoroastrians","tag-san-diego","tag-tirgan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158521","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/158526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}