The Maryamabad Zoroastrian Association is set to host the Gahambar Toji ceremony at the Pir-e Narestaneh shrine.<\/p>\n
according to the Association’s news, the ceremony will take place on Thursday, Amordad 2, 1404 (Khordad day of Amordad month, 3763 Zoroastrian calendar), beginning at 7:30 PM. Mobed Behzad Najmizadeh will lead the gahanbar prayers at the shrine.<\/p>\n
Gahambars, in addition to their religious role, foster community through collective prayer, joy, acts of giving, and most importantly, by strengthening unity\u2014making them a key pillar of Zoroastrian social cohesion. Traditionally held six times a year over five-day periods, each gahambar marks one of the six stages of creation according to Zoroastrian belief. When a gahambar is observed outside these six periods, it is called a Gahambar Toji<\/em>.<\/p>\n Pir-e Narestaneh is located 31 kilometers east of Yazd, nestled at the base of Mount Darbid. This revered spiritual and historical site was registered as a national heritage monument of Iran on Khordad 17, 1378 (June 7, 1999), under registration number 2355. The Maryamabad Zoroastrian Association is responsible for its care and stewardship.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Maryamabad Zoroastrian Association is set to host the Gahambar Toji ceremony at the Pir-e Narestaneh shrine. according to the Association’s news, the ceremony will take place on Thursday, Amordad 2, 1404 (Khordad day of Amordad month, 3763 Zoroastrian calendar), beginning at 7:30 PM. Mobed Behzad Najmizadeh will lead the gahanbar prayers at the shrine. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":158826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1125],"class_list":["post-158825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zoroastrians","tag-pir-e-narestaneh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158825","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=158825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/158826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}