A fire was lit and daf played to mark the opening of the first official fire temple in the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah, according to a report posted by the Kurdistan news agency rudaw.net on September 22, 2016. The inauguration of this temple is expected to "provide the right environment to ‘reintroduce’ Kurds to their ancestral religion,” noted rudaw. An earlier interview with Luqman Haji by Al-Monitor in February 2016 indicated that the Zoroastrian Cultural and Heritage Center with a small temple had already been established although it had not been recognized as a house of worship by the Ministry......