Hirji Vacha Modi

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2018}}

{{Use Indian English|date=October 2018}}

{{More citations needed|date=January 2021}}

Hirji Vacha Modi, known by many orthographic variations, including Mody Hirjee Wacha, was a wealthy Parsi businessman who was responsible for constructing the first Parsi Tower of Silence in Mumbai in 1672. He also built the first fire temple in Mumbai in the Modikhana area of Fort in 1671.{{Cite book|last=Commissariat|first=Mānekshāh Sorābshāh|title=A History of Gujarat: The Maratha period, 1758 A.D. to 1818 A.D|date=1980|publisher=Longmans, Green & Company, Limited|language=en}} This was later destroyed in the great fire of 1803.{{Cite book|last=Kamerkar|first=Mani|title=Soonu Dhunjisha: From the Iranian Plateau to the Shores of Gujarat|date=2002|publisher=Allied Publishers|isbn=978-81-7764-301-5|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Palsetia|first=Jesse S.|title=The Parsis of India: Preservation of Identity in Bombay City|date=2001-01-01|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-12114-0|language=en}}

He was also a founder of the Bombay Parsi Punchayet.{{Cite book|last=White|first=David L.|title=Competition and collaboration: Parsi merchants and the English East India Company in 18th century India|date=1995|publisher=Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers|language=en}}