In connection with your cover story "Dadysett’s dedication,” (Parsiana, July 21-August 6, 2019), I would like to mention that my interest in Bombay’s history often takes me trawling through the Internet for nuggets of information I had no knowledge of. I would 
like to share with your readers what I came across about the Ardeshir Dadibhoy Dadysett Agiary in Fort (pictured).
The Dadysett Agiary is perhaps the only Agiary that has followed both the Shahenshahi and Kadmi rites. Apparently, according to the Encyclopaedia Iranica website, it started as a Shahenshahi adaran in 1771, but switched over to being Kadmi in 1803, after the Dadysetts became patrons of the Kadmi sect. The fire was then tended by priests from Iran, and the website mentions that a Persian priest was serving in the Agiary as late as the 1980s.
More tidbits about the Agiary can be found at the Dadysett Agiary page on the website (http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/dadyseth-agiary) including the now-discontinued practice of placing embers of the Adaran fire at the foot of the Atash Behram fire on one of the Gatha days and how the Persian priests in the Agiary enabled Ervad Tahmuras Anklesaria to rescue Pahlavi texts.
Interestingly, the website states that the salgirehs of the Dadysett Agiary and Atash Behram fires are celebrated on the same day (Srosh roz, Fravardin mah), as the Agiary fire was reinstalled in a new agiary building in 1803 on that day.
KAEVAN UMRIGAR
kaevan.umrigar@gmail.com
The editors reply:
Rustam Paymaster terms the Dadysett Atash Behram as the first "Kadmi Atash Behram” but for the Agiary makes no mention of the word Kadmi. Ardeshir Dadysett in a letter to the chairman of the "Town Committee of Bombay” referred to the "compound” being purchased for "the use of the said church.” Marzban Giara in his book, Global Directory of Zoroastrian Fire Temples states the Agiary was "consecrated according to Kadmi tradition.”