SUNSET: 
0
Photographer:
nemati
Location of Photo:
Aspakhu (Espakhou) Fire Temple , North Khorasan Province, Iran
Date/Time of photo:
14 Sep, 2022 - 9pm
Equipment:
Sony a7iii , Laowa 15mm f/2 ZD Lens.
Description:
On 14 Sept 2022, I took this photo of Milky way over one of the oldest fire Temple in Iran, Aspakhu (Espakhou) Fire Temple. The Photo is stacked from 6 photos that captured by Sony a7iii equipped with Laowa 15mm f/2 – ZD lens around 120s shutter speed, each photo 20s. The Aspakhu (Espakhou) Fire Temple is one of the oldest structures in Iran’s North Khorasan Province. According to studies and excavations it belongs to the Sassanid era (AD 224 to AD 651). It is located by the village of Aspakhu (also romanized as Espakhou, Aspakhv), 65 kilometers west of Ashkhaneh, in Maneh and Samalqan County, North Khorasan Province, Iran. A fire temple in Zoroastrianism is the place of worship for Zoroastrians. In the Zoroastrian religion, fire, together with clean water, are agents of ritual purity. Clean, white “ash for the purification ceremonies [is] regarded as the basis of ritual life,” which, “are essentially the rites proper to the tending of a domestic fire, for the temple [fire] is that of the hearth fire raised to a new solemnity” (Boyce, 1975:455).
