Kārīyān

Kariyan in Fars was associated with Adur Farnbag, one of the three great sacred fires of Zoroastrian Iran. Muslim geographers placed the fire at Kariyan at the time of the Arab conquest. Tradition held that priests divided the fire, keeping one part here and taking another to Fasa to protect it. The sanctuary's fame linked this small place to the religious history of Sasanian Persia and the communities that preserved its faith.