About Udvada vacations

Udvada is a seaboard village located aaaround 187 km north of Mumbai. established between the amalgamation Territory of Daman and the locality town of Valsad on the Maharashtra-Gujarat boundary, it is furthermore renowned as the Mecca of Zoroastrians. Udvada is a holy position of Parsis, which was constructed in the 7th years by invaders from Iran. Udvada derived its name from ‘uth vada’, which means ‘grazed by camels’. The status of the place visited was equal before it was altered into a angling village.

The annals of Udvada designated days back to the 7th century when the Muslim invasion of Iran directed to the negligence of Zoroastrians. The Zoroastrians were marginalised and escaped to India in alignment to preserve their culture and conviction. expressing with them the sacred blaze, they first come to Sanjan, which is established 30 km from Udvada.

Historians state that all through the 14th years, Sanjan was assaulted by equipped forces of the Delhi Sultanate and the Parsis afresh gone away themselves into the caves of Barhot high grounds. These caves are located at a expanse of around 14 km from south of Sanjan. all through the 18th century, a conclusion was made to arrive back the sacred blaze to Sanjan; whereas, the clerics preferred to stay in Udvada.

Majority of the community pertains to the Persian conviction. angling being the major commerce of Udvada, it performances a vital function in altering the heritage as per localized culture and traditions taken up by the community. Shivaratri, Holi and Dussehra are some of the famous carnivals celebrated in the place travelled to.

Atash Behram is a well admired tourist attraction here. Being one of the most important sacred fire-temples of Zoroastrians, the temple is the oldest relentlessly flaming fire-temple in the world. It is one of nine Atash Behrams in the world, out of which eight are established in western India, with one in Udvada. It is accepted that a Parsi should visit any of these fire-temples one time all through their life time.