The 186-year-old Parsi fire temple on Ezra Street, which was feared to have been badly damaged by a fire on its premises in November, remains “structurally stable” and can be “restored,” engineers from the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) said. The fire on November 15 did not weaken the heritage structure, KMC engineers who inspected the temple said. There is no need to pull it down,” said a senior KMC official. The Ezra Street temple, however, has been locked and embroiled in litigation for years, according to community members and KMC officials. The Ezra Street structure has long ceased to function as a fire temple.

Source: The Telegraph January 04, 2026 01:39 UTC