{"id":160753,"date":"2026-01-30T22:41:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/?p=160753"},"modified":"2026-01-30T22:41:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:11:04","slug":"death-anniversary-of-ashu-zarathushtra-commerated-in-qasemabad-yazd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/?p=160753","title":{"rendered":"Death anniversary of Ashu Zarathushtra commerated in Qasemabad, Yazd"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Jashan Khani ceremony marking the passing of Ashu Zarathushtra, the teacher of truthfulness and good deeded, was held on the day of Khorsh-e Izad in the month of Dae at the Dar-e Mehr of Qasemabad, Yazd.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the Zoroastrian Association of Qasemabad, the Avesta was recited by Mobeds Parviz Mali and Khosrow Foroudian, with the participation of fellow worshippers, beginning at noon. The ceremony was partly supported by the donation of the children of the late Mehr Soroush Lohrasbi and his wife Kharman Bahram Khosravi.<\/p>\n

During the event, sirog was prepared by the Afkham family. Following the prayers, refreshments were served in Master Mahyar Ardeshir Hall of Qasemabad, courtesy of Rashid Jamshid Mavandadi and his wife Mahvash Khodarahm Amirani.<\/p>\n

The day of Khorsh-e Izad in Dae\u2014corresponding to the 5th of Dey in the current Iranian calendar\u2014is the anniversary of Ashu Zarathushtra\u2019s passing, the Iranian teacher whose guidance marks the beginning of monotheism in the world. On this day, Ashu Zarathushtra and several of his companions were martyred at the Fire Temple of Balkh by the Turanians.<\/p>\n

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The Jashan Khani ceremony marking the passing of Ashu Zarathushtra, the teacher of truthfulness and good deeded, was held on the day of Khorsh-e Izad in the month of Dae at the Dar-e Mehr of Qasemabad, Yazd. According to the Zoroastrian Association of Qasemabad, the Avesta was recited by Mobeds Parviz Mali and Khosrow Foroudian, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":160758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[129,198],"class_list":["post-160753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zoroastrians","tag-ashu-zarathushtra","tag-qasemabad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160753","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=160753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/160758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}