Sanjan Stambh

Sanjan Stambh is a memorial column at Sanjan in Gujarat, which commemorates the arrival of Zoroastrians there eleven centuries ago as a group of shipwrecked migrants who had fled Muslim persecution after the downfall of the Persian Empire and were welcomed to India by Hindu king Jadi Rana.

It was constructed in the year 1920 to perpetuate the memory of the arrival of the Zoroastrians in India.

The local Parsis of Sanjan celebrate the arrival of the community by celebrating Sanjan Day in November.

Its height, including the leaping flames of fire is 50 feet.

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