The Spatial Formation of the Fire Temple of Zoroastrianism

Safiye İrem Dizdar

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The Spatial Formation of the Fire Temple of Zoroastrianism

Safiye İrem Dizdar

Published in Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning (Volume 1, Issue 1)

Received: 4 December 2016 Accepted: 28 December 2016 Published: 20 January 2017

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Zoroastrianism like Buddhism occurs among the beliefs that emphasize a philosophical side. The battle between good and evil lays at the basis of Zoroastrianism. In Zoroastrianism philosophy water, earth and fire are considered holy and worship while looking at fire, light or the sun. The Zoroastrians didn’t worship fire, their fire was exalted and, while accepting it as a direction marker, they would pray in front of it. However they believed that it was the light of god or knowledge. Examples of the fire temple which forms the subject of the communiqué may be found in Azerbaijan too and it is said that the name of Azerbaijan is taken from these structures. According to this, Azerbaijan comes to mean the “home of fires”. When Azerbaijan accepted Islam, the Zoroastrians migrated from here to India and some scattered to other countries. Today it continues its existence from India as “Parsee temples”. The purpose of the communiqué is debating the examples in Anatolia, Iran and India (Mumbai) while examining the architectural form of the fire temple structures and their symbolic characteristics.

Published in	Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning (Volume 1, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.larp.20160101.15
Page(s)	30-37
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Religious Architecture, Temple, Persia, Fire Temple

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