Parsi community of India gather to celebrate Navroze Festival as their New Year at Parsi Anjuman hall in Delhi.

For about three hundred years after landing at Sanjan, a town in Gujarat, Parsis are said to have lived in peace. By that time their numbers had greatly increased. Sanjan is believed to have been founded by Zoroastrian refugees who sought asylum in Gujarat. Those Zoroastrians, whose descendants are today known as the Parsis. From the time on, the New year Festival or Navroze is still celebrated by the community with much fervour marking the arrival of Parsi community in India.

Parsi community in Delhi on Monday, the18th of August, welcomed a new year and celebrated Navroze, in accordance to the calendar followed by a sect of Zoroastrians. The Delhi Parsi Anjuman on Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, which houses the only Fire temple in the city and a dharamshala, was abuzz with preparations for the evening function.

Delhi Parsi Anjuman celebrated Navroze, with friends and loved ones. About hundreds of guests attended the function. Minister for Minority Affairs Najma Heptulla was the chief guest of the function and Rohinton Fali Nariman, newly appointed judge to the Supreme Court was felicitated that evening. A stall selling Parsi products were also displayed for sale during the festival.


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