St. Nicholas Orthodox Church is a Russian Orthodox church in Tehran,Iran. At the end of the 16th century a monk Nicephorus, founded the first Russian parish on the land of Persia. A Russian spiritual mission was operating in Iran by the beginning of the 20th century, and by 1917 there were about fifty Russian Orthodox churches. Over the next three …

St. Vartanants Church “Serpots Vartanants” in Armenian was established in 1986 and was anointed as an Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church in 1987 at Tehran. St. Vartanants Church is the last Armenian or Christian church which was built in Iran. History At the center of Tehran there is a locality called Heshmatiye, Armenians name it Sardarabad. (Sardarabad is name of a …