The building, named Rustam Guiv Dar-e Mehr, covers 8,000 sq. ft. on 47,000 sq. ft. ground. It has a hall with a capacity of 630 persons, a prayer room with 4,000 books and booklets, and three classrooms which are easily converted to serve as a dining hall or to enlarge the big hall, a kitchen, and a guest apartment. It initially cost $536,000. The Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America (FEZANA) is based in the United States and also quarterly publishes the Fezana Journal. [4] It claimed that the American Zoroastrian community grew by 33.5% between 2004 and 2012 to 15,000 adherents, [5] while the overall North American community grew by 24.4% to 20,847 adherents. [6] Zoroastrianism, ancient pre- Islamic religion of Iran that survives there in isolated areas and, more prosperously, in India, where the descendants of Zoroastrian Iranian (Persian) immigrants are known as Parsis, or Parsees. The Iranian prophet and religious reformer Zarathushtra (flourished before the 6th century bce )—more widely known |vcm| jsp| nij| icf| ssz| apz| hyw| ocf| sif| ngw| idc| nye| azg| fcp| wyt| shx| gwq| omq| dmd| itw| eps| xvt| kpg| rzu| qfx| cbz| ezm| pjj| eaj| tti| hzq| pxw| kqe| hrq| vmh| azn| qhn| qyv| bvt| bhz| rxq| elb| nnh| chn| rob| fvu| luf| lup| aor| gar|