Establishment of Printing Press at Urmia

Perkins established a printing press at Urmia and used it to produce several works, eighty of which he himself either translated or wrote. The press operated within the American missionary center established at Urmia in 1835 by Perkins and Asahel Grant. The Americans are credited with creating the opportunity to put into writing the vernacular Assyrian Neo-Aramaic of the Christians of northwest Iran. No supplied passage dates the press's establishment or its first output; the legacy row's 1 January 1836 date is a placeholder.