{"id":196368,"date":"2025-10-16T12:14:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=196368"},"modified":"2025-10-16T12:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:34:06","slug":"new-subway-station-named-holy-virgin-mary-opens-in-tehran-near-armenian-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/196368\/","title":{"rendered":"New subway station named Holy Virgin Mary opens in Tehran, near Armenian Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Iran has unveiled a new subway station in Tehran called Maryam-e Moqaddas, meaning Holy Virgin Mary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/internet-reacts-iran-virgin-mary-subway-station-10881334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newsweek<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>The station is adorned with Christian art and located near one of the capital&rsquo;s main Armenian churches.<\/p>\n<p>The new station&rsquo;s design includes murals and reliefs depicting Mary, Jesus, and architectural elements inspired by Armenian Christian heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Reports from Iranian and Armenian outlets say the initiative was coordinated with Tehran&rsquo;s Armenian community as part of the capital&rsquo;s subway expansion. The government has framed the project as a cultural tribute celebrating unity between faiths.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has unveiled a new subway station in Tehran called Maryam-e Moqaddas, meaning Holy Virgin Mary, Newsweek writes. The station is adorned with Christian art and located near one of the capital&rsquo;s main Armenian churches. The new station&rsquo;s design includes murals and reliefs depicting Mary, Jesus, and architectural elements inspired by Armenian Christian heritage. Reports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":196353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,96,98,53,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-iran-en","category-other-en","category-culture","category-diaspora"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196369,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196368\/revisions\/196369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}