ZAC Atash Kadeh is our prayer room and was built solely by donations received from the community at large. After we had succeeded in purchasing our property all our finances had been completely depleted. We had the Center which was a 9,000 sq. ft. but many people in the community had complained that this property did not serve our purposes because we could not make a dedicated prayer room to place our main afarganyu and be able to pray. We knew then that we would have to build a separate building for that purpose. One of our priests, Arda-E-Viraf Minocherhomjee, offered to make a substantial donation if ZAC would agree to place a plaque in memory of his parents. This was agreed at the General Body meeting.
Ernest fundraising started and every member did their part to meet the goal.
Sohrab Charna, our member architect was at the helm of this project. Rooky and Tehmi from the EC and two other architects, Dara Commissariat and Zubin Taraporevala also helped. Once the plans passed, we engaged an Iranian Zarathushti, Fereidoun Goshtasbi’s firm, NIMA for the construction of our building.
Six years after the ZAC center was opened, the dream of having a prayer hall was finally achieved. We had our opening ceremony on November 13, 2016. It was Roj Mahrespand, Mah Khordad. The building was sanctified for 48 hours by prayers offered by Mobeds Zarrir and Zerkxis Bhandara. The very first Boi ceremony was then performed by Mobed Zarrir Bhandara, followed by a Hama Anjuman Machhi and a Jashan of six Kardas was performed by twelve Ervads of the community.
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