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no actual ruins of a fire temple have been identified from before the Parthian period... The characteristic feature of the Sassanid fire temple was its domed sanctuary where the fire... like fire temple and monastery at... This fire temple was not always at Udvada... ade of a Zoroastrian fire temple is almost always intentionally nondescript and free of embellishment... that the principal purpose of a fire temple is to house a sacred fire... Only priests attached to a fire temple may enter the innermost sanctum itself... Fire Temple attendance is particularly high during seasonal celebrations...

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