Ateshgah Today
The maintenance and repair work at the State Historical- Architectural Reserve "Ateshgah" ("Temple of Fire Worshippers") continues.
In addition, the residents have been relocated houses adjoining the reserve, and the area has been cleared.
 
At the reserve there will be built a historical museum and office building, said the director of the reserve Rasheed Babai.
 
Ateshgah is located in the village of Surakhany and is known as the place where many centuries ago fire-worshipers came to pray to the burning ground - a fire of methane coming from under ground.
 
At the time, the Zoroastrians built a temple here, which attracted people from all over the East.
 
After the spread of Islam, the temple was abandoned and the followers of Zoroastrianism were persecuted.
 
Ateshgah is a pentagonal fortress with a temple and an altar in the center. That was a place of pilgrimage for worshipers.
The complex in the Middle Ages had 24 rooms for pilgrims. At the time, the dead were cremated there.
 
According to a legend, sinners were to stay in one of the 24 cells alone for a few weeks, and drink only water. Solitude and asceticism cleansed them from sins. -0 -

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