community
Ahvaz (Hormizd-Ardashir)
Ahvaz, Iran · Mandaeans & Nasoraia (southern Mesopotamia/Khuzestan)
31.317, 48.684
Attested. The modern community is attested by fieldwork (Buckley). Older Mandaean presence across Khuzestan is documented in colophons from the 15th century on. Earlier settlement is a hypothesis.
Ahvaz on the Karun River is today the center of Iran's Mandaean community, with its community house (mandi) and religious leaders, and baptisms are held in the river. Under the name Hormizd-Ardashir it was also a Church of the East bishopric in Sasanian times.
Source stance: neutral. Modern fieldwork; colophons are insider sources.
People and groups named here
- Mandaean priests (ganzibra, tarmida) of Ahvaz
Sources
- MANDAEANS iv. Community in Iran
Jorunn J. Buckley, Encyclopaedia Iranica (2005, upd. 2016). Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Pleiades place 912865: Hurmizd Ardashir/[Suq al-Ahwaz]
Pleiades Gazetteer (ISAW, NYU). Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Ahvaz (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors. Accessed 2026-11-11.
Further reading
Councils here
None in this list.