Zoroastrianism settlement that were there in Parsiwada...Diu...

https://iranicaonline.org/articles/parsi-communities-i-early-history

Link👆🏾 for those who wish to read up on Zoroastrianism and Zoroastrians (Parsees as we are locally called in India)

I was told we used to have an agiary and a dakhmu in Diu... So it was first on my list to hunt down...

Thankfully the first person I asked for help was very happy to have met 2 parsees in his hometown... He volunteered to take us triple seat on his Enfield to the above 2 places...

The Fire temple has been converted into a temple of learning for the past 25 years... Prior to that I was informed that for over 60 or 70 years the place had shut down as Zarthostis had left the place way back... No worshippers no Fire temple and Dakhmu is like a picnic spot...

The Dakhmu or Cemetery shut probably 80 years back

Below are my picture story of a community that is still very very fondly remembered by the locals...

The Fire Temple that was... Remanats of a vibrant past...

The dadgah now converted into an alter...

Basic structure remains... Tiling done but still considered a sacred worship area...

Temple of Learning for young impressionable citizens of tomorrow's dawn...

The well has been left un touched...still being used to draw water...

The arches too haven't been tampered.

Exit out of the complex...

The Parsees Dakhmu ( Cemetry).

There are 2 wells and a bungli...land is huge and walled off... I was told govt.is caring for it... 

the bungli

It has been desicrated with vulgar scribbles... Didnt want to click the scribbles.

I never ever thought in my life time I would enter one of these alive.

Since its been non active for 80yrs. I was ok to enter...it did feel vv strange to me...

The small door in the well to the outside world...

well near bungli

Bungli

inside the bungli

you can see the dakhmu from the bungli

on our way out

For visiting the Doongerwadi asked for Solar Power Plant...it is right next to it.

when visiting Gangeshwar temple there is a diversion for the Doongerwadi known as Parsi Nangli (the board aas been removed...you may not find it).

From Google bhai...  👇🏾

Interestingly, few know that it was the island of Diu on which the Parsis first landed when they migrated to India, after the fall of the Sassanian Empire in Iran in the 8th century. According to Parsi lore, they spent 19 years on the island, before they set sail for Sanjan, also on the west coast of India, in Gujarat...

Like the Fire Temples, functioning Towers of Silence are out of bounds except for Parsis, alive or dead. There was a thriving Parsi community on the island of Diu, a Portuguese colony until 1961. Several decades ago, the last of the Parsis living in Diu left the island to settle elsewhere.

This lone statue is of a Parsees gentleman who started the first liquour making outlet (bhatti) in Diu... (As told to me by the locals)