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Bai Pirojbai Edulji Chenai Parsi Dharamshala is a
Parsi The Parsis or Parsees () are a Zoroastrian ethnic group in the Indian subcontinent. They are descended from Persian refugees who migrated to the Indian subcontinent during and after the Arab-Islamic conquest of Iran in the 7th century, w ...
Dharamshala Dharamshala (, ; also spelled Dharamsala) is a town in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It serves as the winter capital of the state and the administrative headquarters of the Kangra district since 1855. The town also hosts the Tibeta ...
(communal shelter) which is located at
Secunderabad Secunderabad () is a twin cities, twin city of Hyderabad and one of the six zones of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) in the States and union territories of India, Indian state of Telangana. It is the headquarters of the South ...
, India. It was established in 1889, the property donated, belonged to Chenai for the use of Zoroastrians coming to Hyderabad. The Dharamshala has a large hall built in 1893, and another small hall built in 1919 known as Jamshed S. Chennai Hall. It also has a
pavilion In architecture, ''pavilion'' has several meanings; * It may be a subsidiary building that is either positioned separately or as an attachment to a main building. Often it is associated with pleasure. In palaces and traditional mansions of Asia ...
known as Edulji S. Chenai Pavilion built in 1929. It is located on Mahathma Gandhi Road.


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