It sheds light on the Parsi, the pure community in India

Mumbai is a museum dedicated to one of the oldest religions in the world, Zoroastrianism.

The Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum documents the history and heritage of the old Parsi community – a small ethnic group that quickly diminishes and lives largely in India.

It is now estimated between 50,000 to only 60,000, and it is believed that the Parisians are the descendants of the Persians who fled religious persecution by Islamic rulers centuries ago.

Despite their great contributions to the economic and cultural fabric in India, much about the Parsi society is still unknown to the main population and the wider world.

“The newly renovated museum hopes to get rid of some of these ambiguity by calling people to explore the history, culture and traditions of the Parsi society through rare historical artifacts offered,” says Kerman Vatakia, Amina Museum.

Some of them include cuneiform bricks, clay utensils, coin and other things that are obtained from places such as Babylon, Midal Mesopotamia, Soussa, Iran and the date of 4000-5000 BC.

These are the places where the Iranian Zoroastrian kings ruled, such as the Akhimenian, Partian and Sassanid dynasties.

There are also the manufactures of Yazd, a city in central Iran, which was once a barren desert and the place where many Zoroastrians settled after fleeing from other regions of Iran after the Arab invasion in the seventh century BC.

One of the prominent artifacts displayed is a replica of the mud cylinder of the Great Cyrus, the Persian king who was the founder of the Akhiminide Empire.

Va vitia says that the clay cylinder – also known as “Cyrus Decree” or “Cyrus Cylinder” – is one of the most important discoveries in the ancient world. The runway in the cuneiform program, determines the rights that Cyrus gives to its topics in Babylon. It is widely seen as the first human rights charter, and a replica is also displayed at the United Nations.

Then there are maps that follow the migration methods for thousands of Iranian Zoroastrians who fled their homeland from persecution and traveled to India in the eighth century to 10, and again in the nineteenth century.

The collection also features furniture, manuscripts, paintings and pictures of prominent Parsis – among them JamSetji Nusserwanji Tata, founder of the famous Tata Group, which has trademarks like Jaguar Land Rover and Tetley Tea.

Another remarkable section displays the artifacts collected by Parsis, who grew the wealthy in the first tea circulating in the nineteenth century, silk, and cotton – especially opium – with China. Traditional valid exhibits include PARSI, which are affected by the designs of China, France and other regions formed by these global trade relations.

Two of the most persuasive exhibitions in the museum are the symmetrical copies of the Silence Tower and the Parsi Fire Temple.

Silence, or Dance, is the place where Parsis leaves their dead to return to nature – they are not buried or burned. “The identical version shows exactly what is happening to the body as soon as it is placed there,” says Va vitakia.

The similar version of the size of life in the Temple of Fire is equally great, which provides a rare glimpse into a sacred area that is usually external to non -escaping. Similar to the prominent Mumbai Temple, it features sacred shapes inspired by ancient Persian engineering in Iran.

The Alpaiwaala Museum, which was originally founded in 1952 at what was then Bombay, is one of the old institutions in the city. Recently, it is now characterized by modern offers with good exhibitions in glass cases. Every visitor is presented by a guide.

“It is a small museum, but it is full of history,” says Va vitakia.

“It is a great place not only for Mumbai or India’s residents to learn more about the Parsi community but for people from all over the world.”