Iran, a metro station dedicated to the Virgin Mary
Inaugurated on Monday, October 13, 2025 is already an international case.
In Tehran, the new subway station is named after the "Holy Virgin Mary", as it is located near the cathedral of San Sarkis, in the sixth district.
In Rome, on line B, there is Santa Maria del Soccorso, in Madrid on line 4 there is Parque de Santa María and on line 12 of Paris we find the station "Notre-Dame-des-Champs" ("Our Lady of the Fields").
We would never have expected that Iran would also equip itself with a "Mariana" subway station, a gesture that the Armenian and Assyrian Christian communities have welcomed as an official recognition of the historical heritage of Iranian Christianity.
There are about 200 thousand Christians in Iran, mainly concentrated in the main cities of Tehran and Isfahan.
The cathedral near the subway station, San Sarkis, is the heart of Armenian Christianity in Tehran, the largest denomination. Alongside the Armenian icons stands …More