Skip to main content
Wellcome Collection homepage
  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
Sign in to your library account
Search for anything
Library account
Concept

Parsees

Images

  • The holy Cow personified as World Mother with many Sanskrit verses. Chromolithograph.
  • A Zoroastrian baptism in Persia. Etching after B. Picart.
  • An Indian man wearing a Parsi string and make-up, squatting on a rug with his hand in a rosary bag, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • The holy Cow personified as World Mother with many Sanskrit verses. Chromolithograph.
  • Bombay (Mumbai): a Parsee (Parsi) "Tower of silence" where the bodies of the dead are exposed to vultures. Photograph.
All images (5)

Catalogue

    • Pictures

    An Indian man wearing a Parsi string and make-up, squatting on a rug with his hand in a rosary bag, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.

    | Date: [approximately 1900] | Reference: 535789i
    Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
    • Books

    Collected Sanskrit writings of the Parsis : old translations of Avestâ and Pahlavi-Pâzend books as well as other original compositions, with various readings and notes / collated, corrected, and edited by Ervad Sheriarji Dadabhai Bharucha.

    | Date: 1906-<1933>
    • Books

    A community at the cross-road / by Sapur Faredun Desai.

    Desai, Sapur Faredun. | Date: 1948
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Notebook

    | Date: 1862-1888 | Reference: MS.5875
    Part of: Gray, John Temperley (1835-1892), P.&O. Company ship's surgeon
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Bombay (Mumbai): a Parsee (Parsi) "Tower of silence" where the bodies of the dead are exposed to vultures. Photograph.

    | Date: [between 1800 and 1899?] | Reference: 664500i
All works (11)

Wellcome Collection

183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE

+44 (0)20 7611 2222
info@wellcomecollection.org

  • Getting here

Today’s opening times

  • Galleries
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Library
    10:00 – 16:00
  • Café
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Shop
    10:00 – 18:00

Opening times

Our building has:

  • Step free access
  • Hearing loops

Access information

  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Jobs
  • Media office
  • Developers
  • Privacy and terms
  • Cookie policy
  • Manage cookies
  • Modern slavery statement
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
SoundCloud
YouTube
Tripadvisor

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence