The building is not far from another prestigious old school of Tehran, Alborz High School.
The Ahura Mazda symbol is visible on the main facade of the building.
Firouz Bahram High School is one of Tehran's oldest high schools still in operation. Alborz High School Alborz High School in Persian:(دبیرستان البرز), is an Iranian prestigious High School located in the heart of Tehran. ... Ahura Mazda In the Zoroastrian faith, Ahura Mazda is abstract and transcendent. ... Tehran (also transcribed Teheran) (تهران in Persian), population 9,000,000 (metropolitan: 14,000,000), and a land area of 254 square miles, is the capital of Iran and the center of Tehran Province. ...
Built in 1932, it was constructed on the property of Zoroastrians such as Ardeshir Kiamanesh. Zoroastrianism was adapted from an earlier, polytheistic faith by Zarathushtra (Zoroaster) in Persia very roughly around 1000 BC (although, in the absence of written records, some scholars estimates are as late as 600 BC). ...
The architecture of the building is clearly that of the Qajar era of Iran. The Qajar dynasty was the ruling family of Persia from 1796 to 1925. ...
The Modi and Vakil Atash Bahrams in Surat were installed in 1823, followed by the Wadiaji Atash Bahram in Bombay in 1830, the Banaji Atash Bahram in 1845, and the Anjuman Atash Bahram in 1897.
Bull's urine, an indispensable article in the purificatory rites of the body and ceremonial ablutions from the earliest times, took on the power of purifying the inner nature of man. Drinking consecrated bull's urine thus became an indispensable part of certain Zoroastrian ceremonies.
Hataria and other Parsi philanthropists founded schools and established several places of worship for Zoroastrians, and were able to prevail on the authorities to abolish the Jaziyah (Poll Tax) in 1882.
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