Iran’s Armenian community celebrates Tyarndarach

February 14, 2013 – 14:01 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Tehran’s Armenian community has secretly celebrated
Tyarndarach (Candlemas Day), taking advantage of the absence of the
head of Iranian Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
According to an independent Iranian journalist Vartan Davtian,
Armenian churches in Iran prohibit making bonfires as a symbol of
Zoroastrism and pagan traditions.
`The public, however, insists on the Christian roots of the holiday
and continues marking it,’ Davtian said.