fire temple

American  

noun

1. a place of worship for Zoroastrians.

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Etymology

Origin of fire temple

First recorded in 1735–45

Example Sentences

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

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

A Parsi woman and a man pray at a fire temple in Mumbai on the Parsi new year,  in this Aug. 21, 2002, file photo.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2012

Prayer with the Parsee is obligatory, but it need not be said in the fire temple; the Parsee may pray to the sun or moon, the mountains or the sea.

From The Critic in the Orient by Fitch, George Hamlin