page_title: Fire Temple of Yazd
section_title: Features
hierarchical_section_title: Fire Temple of Yazd / Features
caption_attribution_description: Zoroastrian Eternal Flame at the Fire Temple in Yazd, Central Iran
context_page_description: The Fire Temple of Yazd, also known as Yazd Atash Behram, is a Zoroastrian fire temple in Yazd, Yazd province, Iran. It enshrines the Atash Bahram, meaning “Victorious Fire”, dated to 470 AD. It is one of the nine Atash Bahrams, the only one of the highest grade fire in ancient Iran where Zoroastrians have practiced their religion since 400 BC; the other eight Atash Bahrams are in India. According to Aga Rustam Noshiravan Belivani, of Sharifabad, the Anjuman-i Nasiri opened the Yazd Atash Behram in the 1960s to non-Zoroastrian visitors.
  Seeing a few children, firebox in their hand, and their occasional naughtiness but with caution not to fall into the ground was a common sight in ancient Iran. The children who like fire were the heat and kindness of every family. At that time, there was no match or other instrument to make fire. Thus, in one place, a fire was always on so that the people can take an amount of fire daily to turn on the firebox of their house. “Kadeh” in Dari Persian language means house, and “Atashkadeh” means the house of fire.
context_section_description: The fire temple is built in Achaemenid architecture style in brick masonry to the design prepared by the architects from Bombay. It is similar in design to the Atash Behram temples in India. The building is surrounded by a garden which has fruit trees. There is a winged deity of the Ahura Mazda embedded on the front door of the temple. 
  The sacred fire is installed in the temple behind an amber tinted glass enclosure. Only Zoroastrians are allowed to go to the sanctum area of the fire. Non-Zoroastrians can only view it from outside the glass chamber. The Anjuman-i Nasiri 
  opened the Yazd Atash Behram in the 1960s to non-Zoroastrian visitors.
  The Zoroastrians’ fire temple was completed by Persian architecture in 1936 and finally in 1939, this 1547 year old fire was transferred to the fire temple. The fire of the Yazd fire temple is from Bahram fire (the specific fire of Sassanid kings) that doubled its importance.
  There was always a spring or stream next to the old fire temples of Iran, because it was trying to put together the four elements of water, wind, soil, and fire. After that, they tried to have a spring or stream next to every fire temple. But due to the lack of spring and stream, the constructed pool in Yazd fire temple was built for this reason. At prayer times, you see the bright dressed men and women entering the fire temple with bare feet (without shoes).
  The holy fire of the fire temple is in a large bronze furnace, and a person named “Hirbod” is responsible to keep it. This eternal fire can now be watched by visitors separated from it by a glass wall.
caption: Zoroastrian Eternal Flame at the Fire Temple in Yazd, Central Iran
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