city
Istakhr
Estakhr, near Persepolis, Iran · Silk Road / overland route
29.981, 52.909
Attested. Attested in the synod acts of 424.
Istakhr, beside Persepolis, was the ancestral city of the Sasanian dynasty. Its Church of the East bishop Zadoi signed the synod of 424, making it one of the Fars dioceses under the metropolitan of Rev Ardashir and a waypoint on the road from Mesopotamia to the east.
Source stance: insider. Church of the East synod acts.
People and groups named here
- Zadoi of Istakhr (424)
Related places
Sources
- Pleiades place 922662: (I)Stakhr
Pleiades Gazetteer (ISAW, NYU). Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Fars (East Syriac ecclesiastical province) (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors. Accessed 2026-11-11.
Further reading
Councils here
None in this list.