Virtual Ritual / Digitising Endangered Languages

Following on from the presentation of the ancient Yasna ceremony you can experience Zoroastrianism in contemporary Iran via the digitised oral testimony drawn from interviews with a Zoroastrian population numbering less than 25,000. Watch some of the lay rituals performed by villagers who speak in what is now an endangered language, Zoroastrian Dari. See how unwritten languages can be preserved in perpetuity through our endangered languages digital archive.

Virtual Reality (VR) has experienced a rapid rise in recent years thanks to the increased availability of consumer headsets, and new applications for this emerging technology are continually being developed. Come join us to learn how VR is being used to document the Zoroastrian Yasna ceremony - one of the world’s oldest religious rituals still performed today.

Slip on a set of VR goggles, immerse your senses in the ancient sights and sounds of the fire temple and allow yourself to be transported back in time more than 3000 years.