CHURCH BUILDING
Saint Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church
Tehran · Russian Orthodox
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- Locality
- Tehran
- Tradition
- Russian Orthodox
- Type of place
- CHURCH BUILDING
- Coordinates
- 35.70827° N, 51.42608° E
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History: Saint Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church
St. Nicholas is a Russian Orthodox church in Tehran. Russian parishes in Iran go back to the late sixteenth century, and by 1917 there were about fifty Russian Orthodox churches in the country, almost all of which were lost in the following years. The present church was built in the early 1940s with donations from Russian émigrés, under the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia; after years of decline, it joined the Moscow Patriarchate in 1995 at its parishioners’ request.
An interesting detail
Russia’s foreign ministry reported that a strike in Tehran on 1 April 2026 caused structural damage to the church and its auxiliary buildings.