Christianity in Iran
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Christianity in Iran dates back to the early years of the religion. Through this time the Christian faith has always been followed by a minority of the population of Iran under its different state rel
Assyrian Christians from Urmia
His Eminence Archbishop Edik Baroni Iranian Armenian bishop and Christian leader
The Armenian Orthodox Vank Cathedral of Isfahan (completed 1664) is a relic of the Safavid era.
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Assyrian Church of the East
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The Assyrian Church of the East, sometimes called the Church of the East and officially known as the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, is an East Syriac Christian church that follow
Christianity in Iran
…Armenian Apostolic Church (between 110,000, 250,000, and 300,000 adherents) Assyrian Church of the East (about 11,000–20,000 adherents), Catholic Church (about 21,380 adherents) in three different rites. Chaldean Catholic Church (3,900 adherents as of…
The Patriarchal See of the Assyrian Church of the East in Kurdistan Region, Iraq
A 6th-century Assyrian church, St. John the Arab, in the Assyrian village of Geramon
Mar Toma church near Urmia, Iran
Mar Elias (Eliya), the Nestorian bishop of the Urmia Plain village of Geogtapa, c. 1831. The image comes from A Residence of Eight Years in Persia Among the Nestorians, with Notes of the Mohammedans by Justin Perkins (Andover, 1843).