In 1861 London Parsis, among them Muncherjee Hormusji Cama and Cowasji Jehangir, found the Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe to serve the first settled Zoroastrian community in the West, with a house of prayer and a burial ground at Brookwood. It is the diaspora's oldest standing institution.
Tagged: Zoroastrian Diaspora Zoroastrianism
The Event
- Date
- 1861 (exact)
- Era
- Parsi India; Standard periodization of Zoroastrian history
- Location
- London; today United Kingdom
- Traditions
- Zoroastrianism
- Streams
- Zoroastrian Diaspora
- Key figures
- Muncherjee Hormusji Cama, Cowasji Jehangir
Primary Sources
- The tradition's own record of the event.
Secondary Sources
- Boyce, Mary. Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. London: Routledge, 1979.
- Choksy, Jamsheed K. Conflict and Cooperation: Zoroastrian Subalterns and Muslim Elites in Medieval Iranian Society. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
- Encyclopaedia Iranica, entries on the Avesta, the Sasanians, and the Parsi calendar disputes.
- Hinnells, John R. The Zoroastrian Diaspora: Religion and Migration. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Rose, Jenny. Zoroastrianism: An Introduction. London: I.B. Tauris, 2011.
Provenance: HIST-1019; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-28.
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