History
~ Only about 10,000 survive in remote villages in Iran, but over the centuries many sought religious freedom in India.
~ Zoroastrianism is the ancient, pre-Islamic religion of Persi
~ Zoroastrianism is the smallest of the major religions of the world
~ It was the first of the world’s religions to be founded by an inspired prophetic reformer.
~ Zoroaster (the Greek name by which the Iranian prophet Zarathustra has become
known) is traditionally believed to have lived and taught in the early part of the 6th
century BC
~ It is not known how the religion spreads through Iran to become, eventually, the official religion of the Achaemenid dynasty.