What is Zostoria
Why We Exist
Over centuries, governance changes have scattered the Zoroastrian population from its roots in Iran and India to communities across the globe. Today, Zoroastrians of Iranian and Parsi heritage live on every continent — some in well-established, organized communities, others in newly emerging or informal groups.
Yet, many individuals and smaller groups — even within Iran and India — remain isolated, with little or no interaction with the wider Zoroastrian or non-Zoroastrian networks.
Existing connections between these communities are often fragmented, event-driven, and short-lived. Over time, they lose momentum, leaving valuable opportunities for collaboration untapped.
The real challenge is not only migration or population decline, but the lack of a unified, lasting, and location-independent network. Such a network could:
Map the skills and capacities of Zoroastrian communities worldwide
Strengthen cooperation and knowledge sharing
Address shared needs and overcome common challenges
It’s time to build a permanent bridge that connects Zoroastrians everywhere — unlocking potential, preserving heritage, and shaping a stronger future together.
Definition
Vision
Missions
- Establishing a dedicated platform for interaction among Zoroastrian communities and individuals
- Identifying the capabilities and limitations of current and feasible communities (feasibility study of Zoroastrian community development and spatial planning)
- Focused strategic planning for community development
- Decentralized operational planning for development
Core Domains
Spatial domain (location)
The Zoroastrian Synergy Network is a concept developed and evolved on a virtual platform, ultimately aimed at uniting Zoroastrians worldwide in an integrated structure with a variety of functional themes.
Semantic domain (subject)
(1): Economic and Entrepreneurial
Employment and income development,increasing assets, creating economic value‐added, and reducing maintenance costs
(2): Social‐Cultural:
Developing relationships and interactions, enhancing social capital, and documenting and sharing cultural similarities and differences
(3): Research, Development, and Scientific:
Expanding and synergizing the internal capacities of the Zoroastrian community with common or complementary fields of knowledge production, and connecting to external scientific resources
(4): Healthcare and Wellness:
Utilizing individual and spatial capacities to develop community health and facilitate treatment
Field of Participation
Operational Objectives
- Creating value‐added on the movable and immovable assets of Zoroastrian communities and individuals
- Economic value creation through defining investment projects and attracting investments from Zoroastrian individuals and legal entities
- Job creation and economic empowerment of Zoroastrian households
- The role of Zoroastrian communities in national and international economies (increasing the share of Zoroastrian communities in GDP)
- Enhancing the educational, social, and economic levels of the Zoroastrian community on a national scale
Actions
- Creating a database of assets of Zoroastrian communities and individuals
- Creating a database of current occupations of Zoroastrians
- Creating a database of community and inter‐community needs (current processes and areas for new job creation)
- Creating a database of Zoroastrian/non‐Zoroastrian participatory organizations and institutions (with the capacity to provide financial and non‐financial resources)
- Sorting and combining databases and creating a spatial meta‐database of resources and needs
- Developing a roadmap for the economic participation platform (strategic‐structural and operational plan)
Establishing the economic participation network platform and launching it