Also known as Mazdayasna, it Is one the world's oldest religions, with its roots possibly stretching back to the second millennium B.C. Zoroastra is the Greek name for Zarathustra. Adherents believe in one supreme God, named Ahura Mazda. Its theology includes a duty to protect nature, which has led it be called the world's first ecological religion.
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Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrian Centre This art deco cinema building was designed in 1936 by F. E...
Founder of the Society of Friends (Quakers). Born Leicestershire. Died in a house near the Gracechurch Street meeting house. The exact location of his grave in Bunhill Fields Burial Ground is un...
Charles Alder Stubbs was born in Canonbury, Islington, London, the fifth of the eight children of the Reverend Stewart Dixon Stubbs (1839-1919) and Mary Elizabeth Stubbs née Alder (1825-1869). His ...
Burnt at the stake in Stratford for his Protestant beliefs. A brewer, associated with Fust. Condemned by Bishop Bonner.
Sea captain and trader. Then he served the London Missionary Society, 1796–98, as Honorary Commander of the ‘Duff’, the first British Missionary Ship of modern times. Born at Newcastle-on-Tyne. Wa...
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