[1][2] According to Aga Rustam Noshiravan Belivani, of Sharifabad, the Anjuman-i Nasiri (elected Zoroastrian officials) opened the Yazd Atash Behram in the 1960s to non-Zoroastrian visitors.Veneration of fire has its roots in the older practice of keeping a hearth fire burning continually - especially during the bitterly cold winters so characteristic of the steppes of Central Asia, when the early Indo-European-speaking peoples led a nomadic life in which fire was a source of warmth, light and comfort.

The ceremony accompanying recitation of the Yasna Haptanghaiti seems to originate in pre-Zoroastrian times when priests would offer libations to fire and water.

[3] The temple is located in Yazd to the east of Shiraz, in the desert province of Yazda, where Zoroastrians have practiced their religion since about 400 BC.

[6] According to an inscription plaque fixed on the shrine, the construction of the Yazd Atash Behram temple is dated to 1934.

[8] The fire temple is built in Achaemenid architecture style in brick masonry to the design prepared by the architects from Bombay.

[11] The Anjuman-i Nasiri opened the Yazd Atash Behram in the 1960s to non-Zoroastrian visitors.

At prayer times, you see the bright dressed men and women entering the fire temple with bare feet (without shoes).