DAR-E-MEHR

          Dar-e-Mehr is a great place for children to have fun and make new friends. Many Zorastrian kids come and play with each other. There is a small field so kids can play soccer on it. They can also play football on it. There is also a basketball hoop so kids can play a basket ball game, or they can play horse or around the world. There is volleyball net so people can have a volleyball game. Dar-e- Mehr also has a play ground for little children to play on.

 Besides playing and making friends, you also learn the Persian language. You learn how to talk, read, and write Farsi. Not all people go to Farsi class. Farsi class starts when school starts. It’s on Sundays. Some kids used to hate Farsi and Farsi class but now they like it. Kids go into different grades every year. The children in the classes write mother’s day cards and father’s day cards.      

There are celebrations too, like Mehregan, and Yalda. In Mehregan, all the Mobads pray and the children sing the national anthem, Ey Iran. The celebration of Yalda is a celebration, which people sit around a table and read poems. They also eat fruits. In some celebrations everybody in the Farsi class sing songs.

The most important celebration is Novrooz. It is celebrated all around Iran as well as here. People come to Dar-e-Mehr to celebrate this event. Novrooz is like a Christmas to Persians. Kids usually do the plays on Novrooz.

            In some celebrations kids volunteer to do plays. People do dances, pantomimes, plays, and all sorts of other things. I did the pantomime with my friend Payam. I like doing plays, that’s why I always volunteer.

Kids also pray and give donations to Dar-e-Mehr. There is a praying area behind Dar-e Mehr. The praying area is in a room. When we go in the praying room, we take off our shoes. The women where scarves and the men wear white hats. Every body prays around the big bowl of fire. When we do some of the prayers that were not memorized, we read from Avesta books. These are some of the reasons I think you should come to Dar-e-Mehr.  

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