The Dar-e Mehr is an advanced religious building introduced to Civilization VI in the Fall 2017 Update. It is built in the Holy Site district and requires a Temple (or one of its replacements). It may also be purchased with 
Faith.
- Effects:
- +3
Faith (boosted by Simultaneum policy card) - +1 additional Faith for each era since constructed or last repaired (not boosted by Simultaneum policy card)
- +1 Citizen slot
- +1 Faith additionally per Specialist in this district
- Cannot be pillaged by natural disasters.
- With Ethiopia Pack: +3 Faith for each Religious City-State with 6 Envoys
- +3
- Restrictions:
- Requires the Dar-e Mehr Worship Belief to be constructed.
Strategy[]
The Dar-e Mehr provides increasing amounts of Faith with the passing of time, making it advantageous to build or purchase early on. However, the narrow window of opportunity for a Religious Victory renders this worship building counter-synergistic with its intended purpose, meaning it will almost never be anyone's first choice. Additionally, repairing a pillaged Dar-e Mehr nullifies all the Faith bonuses it has accumulated throughout the eras, and chances are you won't have much time to build its Faith bonus up again. This makes the Dar-e Mehr an underwhelming choice, but somewhat better for cultural civilizations, since they will usually avoid war and it can generate enough Faith to buy expensive Naturalists and Rock Bands by the endgame.
While the Dar-e Mehr itself cannot be pillaged by disasters in Gathering Storm, it offers no protection to other Holy Site buildings or to the district itself. This is one of the few cases where lower-tier buildings can be pillaged while a higher-tier building is not.
Civilopedia entry[]
First seen around the Ninth Century BCE, the first Zoroastrian structures called 'Dar-e Mehr' are linked to the concept of 'Atar' ("holy fire"). The fire and clean water at the center of the Dar-e Mehr aren't worshipped, but instead a means to gain ritual purity.
A temple would be named depending on the type of fire housed within, with the holiest being the "Fire of Victory," or 'Atash Behram,' requiring 32 priests and a year of burning fires from 16 sanctified sources to be considered consecrated.
These temples, usually constructed on a hill or higher location, contain ritualized flames housed in a chamber called the atashgah. However, if you're a non-believer, don't expect to see the atashgah or the flame inside: tradition dictates that only the faithful be allowed to view the holy fire.
