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It is a museum dedicated to the followers of a lane of India’s financial capital in the southern end, Mumbai, a museum dedicated to the followers of one of the world’s oldest religions, Zoroastrianism.
Framji Dadabhoy Alpawalla Museum History and inheritance of the ancient Parsi community – a small ethnic group that is highly reduced and mainly in India.
Now is estimated at a total of 50,000 to 60,000 and 60,000, the parents are expected to have previously descendants of the Persian prejudices previously followed by the Islamic rulers.
Despite significant contributions to the economic and cultural piece of India, a lot about the PARSI community remains less than the main population and the wider world.
“The newly renovated museum includes some of the dark, some of these darkness, some of these darkness demonstrated the history, culture and traditions of the Parsion society,” he said.
Some of them include Mixot, Terracotta containers, coins and places such as Babylon, Mesopotamia, Susa and Iran, and include 4000-5000 BCE.
These are the places where Zoroastrian kings of Iran once managed like Achaemenian, Parthian and Sasaniya dynasty.
In the 7th century of Iran, after the Arab occupation, after the Arab occupation fled from other parts of Iran, there are also artifacts of the city, located in the center of a city where many Zoroastrianities are located in the city.
One of the notable artefacts on the screen is a replica of a clay cylinder of a passian king, a large, a Persian king of the Achaemenid Empire.
Fatakia is one of the most important discoveries in the ancient world, known as “Cyrus’s judgment” or “Cyrus Cylinder”. Written in Muneiform scripts, this describes the rights of the dirtis to the subjects in Babylon. It is widely seen as the first human rights charter, a replica is also displayed in the United Nations.
Then, thousands of Iranian Iranian Iranians have maps watching migration roads and traveled to India and re-traveling to India in the 8th and 10th centuries.
Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, the founder of the Iconic Tata Group, which has the furniture, manuscripts, paintings and portraits of the Jaguar Land Rover and Tetley River, including the founder of Jaguar Land Rover and Tetley River.
Another surprising section demonstrates artworks collected by tea, silk, cotton, cotton, cotton, opium, opium, opium, especially in the early 19th century. The exhibits include traditional Parsi Searees affected by the design of designs formed by Chinese, France and these global trade relations.
Two of the most attractive exhibits of the museum are replicas with silence tower and the Parsi fire temple.
Silence Tower or Dakhma, leaving the dead to return the dead to nature – neither buried nor the cremated. “When replica is placed there, he said that the body shows what happened,” said Fathakia, some of the entrance to actual towers were restricted.
The replica of the life size of the fire is equally interesting, offers a unique paragraph-like idea. Modeled in the prominent Mumbai temple, offers the sacred motifs inspired by ancient Persian architecture in Iran.
First, in 1952, the Alpawala Museum, Bombay, the elderly institutions of the city. Recently renovated, now presents modern demonstrations that have a good head-headed exhibits in glass cases. Each visitor is offered a tour of the guide.
“It’s a small museum but full of history,” said Fathakia.
“And only for Mumbai or Indian residents, learn more about the PARSI community, but it is a great place for people from all over the world.”