Missionary Researches in Armenia: Including a Journey Through Asia Minor, and Into Georgia and Persia; With a Visit to the Nestorian and Chaldean Christians of Oormiah and Salmas (Classic Reprint)

These Researches, which had for their object to ascertain what it might be practicable for the churches of Armenia to do towards the revival and reformation of the Oriental churches in A rmenia, Georgia, and Persia, were undertaken under the direction and at the expense of the American Board of Missions. A large extent of territory bordering on the Mediterranean had been previously surveyed by missionaries sent out by this Board. In the year 1820, Messrs. Fisk and Parsons had made the tour of that part of Asia Minor which includes the Seven Churches. In 1823, Mr. Fisk, in company with Mr. King, ascended the Nile to Thebes; and the same missionaries, with their fellow-labourers, explored the whole of Palestine and the greater part of Syria, between 1821 and 1827. In 1827, Mr. Grindley travelled from Smyrna into Cappadocia ;and in that year and the following two, Messrs. Brewer, King, Smith, and Anderson visited the Morea and the principal islands of the Ionian and Egean Seas. Tripoli and Tunis were visited by Mr. Bird in 1829. The result of these investie-ations was a valuable and authentic mass of information relative to the religious condition of the Greek, Coptic, and Maronite
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