Meeting JesusChrist
on the
Silk Road

A documentary film by
 Kioumars Derambakhsh

 

 




 A historical journey on the identity of Christianity
 in Iran in which every work of Christian
 architecture along the Silk Road had been registered.
 

   

 

God had destined the Armenians to be the first believers of Christianity in Asia, which happened along the Silk Road, thanks to saint Gregory the Illuminator, who was the first bishop at the down of the fourth century A.D., contemporary with Tirades the third. From the Armenians point of view, the apostle St. Thaddeus Jude was the first person to speed Christianity in the region, hence there exists a  small monastery known to be place where this saint was murdered. Since several centuries ago, the name of Jesus has been synonymous with the church built by the order of rulers for worshipping the Christian God. However, along the silk road the church meant a small place of worship built to glorify the same God, not built through the commission of rulers but by the love for Christ; Shepherds would build these churches in the heart of mountains as a place of worship and sanctuary for shepherds and people and thus was the monastery of Saint Thasseus Constructed. We begin our journey by looking for signs and traces of Christ on the silk road, during three different periods, each risen and flourished within an identical culture, present on the vast land named Iran.
 

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