Xi'an Stele
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The Xi'an Stele or the Jingjiao Stele, traditionally translated as the "Nestorian Stele," is a Tang Chinese stele erected in 781 that documents 150 years of early Christianity in China. It is a limest
The stele entitled 大秦景教流行中國碑 was erected in China in 781.
Michał Boym, Flora Sinensis, 1656
Athanasius Kircher, China Monumentis, 1667
Title of the stele: "Stele to the Propagation in China of the Luminous Religion (Church of the East) of the Roman Empire (Daqin)"
Alopen
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Alopen is the first recorded Christian missionary to have reached China, during the Tang dynasty. He was a missionary from the Church of the East, and probably a Syriac speaker from the Sasanian Empir
Xi'an Stele
…China. It reveals that the initial Church of the East had met recognition by the Tang Emperor Taizong, due to efforts of the Christian missionary Alopen in 635. According to the stele, Alopen and his fellow Syriac missionaries came to China from Daqin (the Eastern Roman Empire) in the ninth year of…
Rubbing of a Nestorian Cross at the Shih tzu ssu 1