fire temple
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of fire temple
First recorded in 1735–45
Example Sentences
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Two of the museum's most compelling exhibits are replicas of a Tower of Silence and a Parsi fire temple.
From BBC • May 16, 2025
Outside, across a narrow alley, workers are once again renovating the majestic fire temple, where the marble has been polished clean and the stone of the outer walls treated with chemicals to resist decay.
From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2021
By contrast, the Parsi fire temple we passed used English and Gujarati lettering of equal size, because its Parsi devotees usually speak Gujarati and English.
From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2019
Built in 1921, Cozy Building is one of four Parsi buildings near Gowalia Tank - a park in central Mumbai - that flank a lane, with a fire temple at the end of it.
From BBC • Jun. 27, 2016
The king had taken a vow to build a city and to erect a fire temple at the place where he had defeated his enemy.
From Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I by Nariman, G. K. (Gushtaspshah Kaikhushro)
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