The temple hosts the throne of a sacred fire known as the Iranshah. While the enclave is around 265 years old, the fire itself has been burning for almost thirteen centuries. A group of 18,000 followers of the prophet Zarathustra had fled Islamic persecution in Persia in the eighth century and reached—via the small fishing village of Diu—a town called Sanjan on the coast of Gujarat. They were granted refuge by King Vijayaditya of the Western Chalukyas, known as Jadi Rana in Zoroastrian texts. The Parsis had promised their God, Ahura Mazda, that they would consecrate a sacred fire—an Atash
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