Heritage record
Zoroastrians Graveyard Quetta
BalochistanCemeteryProtected
It is located in Killi Ismail Quetta. The graveyards are situated in near Baluchistan Board of Intermediate and Secondary education. The graveyards have boundary walls. The main entrance of the grave is locating on the south. This graveyard counts of the Paris commonly, living in Zhobe before and after the creation of Pakistan. These graves bury in burnt bricks masonry decorated with white marble stone with cement and lime mortars. Some graves are simple without decoration but mostly re decorated with signs and images of Zoroastrians religion. The faravahars, the best-known symbol form ancient Persian of the winged sun disk with seated male figure in the center. It is thought to represent Ahura Mazda. The god of Zoroastrian but also been interpreted Fravashi (Gurdian Angel). Persian English and Gujarati inscriptions are present on the head slab of these graves, and then name, date of birth place and text from the Zoroastrian religion Avesta.
Photographs: Department of Archaeology & Museums national inventory record, displayed from the official source (doam.gov.pk). Not PWHI photography.
- Record ID
- 10403
- Province / territory
- Balochistan
- District
- Quetta
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Cemetery
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 30.21417, 66.99482 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Anonymous. (Miscellaneous). Miscellaneous. Miscellaneous.
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