Taizong issues an official declaration protecting the …
Years: 638 - 638
Taizong issues an official declaration protecting the Nestorian church three years after Alopen’s arrival to Chang'an.
He erects China's first Christian church and recognizes twenty-one priests, likely all Persians, to administer it.
Locations
People
Groups
- Persian people
- Confucianists
- Christians, Eastern (Diophysite, or “Nestorian”) (Church of the East)
- Chinese Empire, Tang Dynasty
