Most elementary-school boys spend their free time playing videogames or hanging out with friends. Zerkxis Bhandara’s childhood was a bit different. He started training to become a Zoroastrian priest when he was 9. 

Mr. Bhandara, whose family traces its lineage to a 12th-century Indian cleric, was born into the role. But the 25-year-old graduate student from Irvine, Calif., pushed back on his early religious obligations. “Oh gosh, I was a bad student,” he recalls. There were classes. Homework. “Like every 9-year-old, I would rather do any other thing.”

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Official website of the 7WZYC: All Congress Sessions on Video: All Congress Photographs: 400 Zarathushti youth from all over the world gathered in sunny Southern California to participate in the 7t…

Source: 7th World Zoroastrian Youth Congress: A Report | Parsi Khabar

On a typical-looking stretch of southwest Houston — down the street from Kwik Kar Lube and Storage Choice, across from a privacy fence hiding cookie-cutter McMansions — a Zoroastrian fire temple opened last week: a brand-new, sparkling-white place where priests from one of the world’s oldest religions tend a holy flame.

Source: Zoroastrian ‘fire temple’ opens in Houston - HoustonChronicle.com

Source: UCLA College | Zoroastrian Studies Graduate Fellowship established at UCLA