A summary of the book History of Christianity in Iran-Zamin (Chapter Seven)
Halakukhan, who was the conqueror of Iran and Baghdad, had a Christian wife named “Dokuz Khatun”. It is said that his mother, Sarkoti Baji, was also a Christian. Therefore, when he took over the affairs of Iran and the Middle East, he granted the Christians a freedom that they did not have in their entire religious life from the first century until that time. During the period of Holakukhan and the following Panj Khan, Christianity was the privileged religion and Islam was the disaffected religion. At this time, churches and shrines were built.
But the Christians, who seem to have no smell of Christian ethics, persecuted the Muslims and tried to make up for centuries of humiliation. During the month of Ramadan, they drank wine in public and sprinkled it on the clothes of Muslims or poured it on the entrance of mosques. They carried the cross in the streets and forced the businessmen to pay respect to it and many other anti-Christian acts!
Churches were destroyed all over Iran, and according to the available information, there were churches only in the cities of Baghdad, Mosul, Erbil, Nusaybin, Diyarbakir, Mayfarqat, Mardis, Tabriz, Urmia and Maragheh. According to this list, only three cities in today’s Iran had churches. But this was not the end of sorrows and sufferings. With the complete conquest of Iran in 1395 by Timur Khan, the remaining Christianity of the previous years also disappeared from the world. The remaining Christians either became Muslims or fled to Kurdistan and formed a nation that is called “Assyrians” today.
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