"Even before we anticipated purchasing a building this year, the most important part of our future prayer hall had already arrived in our continent, waiting to be sent our way,” commented Bakhtavar Desai, president of the Zoroastrian Association of Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana (ZAKOI). She was referring to the nearly 20” in height and 16” in diameter, spare afarganyu from the Quetta Agiary in Pakistan that lay in wait in Vancouver for two years. The metal urn atop which burns the sacred fire was recently sent by courier for use by ZAKOI.
Clockwise from top l: property bought by the......