[7] Historically, Kurdish converts to Christianity came from diverse backgrounds, including Ancient Iranian religion, Zoroastrianism, Islam, and Yazidism.
Evangelical churches have been established in recent times in Erbil, Selimani, and Duhok in Iraqi Kurdistan, and in Hassakeh, Qamishli, Kobani, Amouda, and Afrin (until 2018) in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.
[9] In 927 AD, he and his family were executed during a raid by Thamal al-Dulafi, the Muslim Arab governor of Tarsus.
[10] In the late 11th and the early 12th century AD, Kurdish Christians made up a minority of the army of the fortress city of Shayzar.
[11] The Zakarids–Mkhargrdzeli, an Armenian[12][full citation needed][13]–Georgian dynasty of Kurdish[14][15][16][17][18] origin, ruled parts of northern Armenia in the 13th century AD and tried to reinvigorate intellectual activities by founding new monasteries.
Marco Polo, in his book, stated that some of the Kurds who inhabited the mountainous part of Mosul were Christians, while others were Muslims.
[22][full citation needed] A significant part of Kurdish Christian converts were actually of Yazidi background.
[37] There are some 80-100 Christian Kurds that converted in recent times in the city of Kobanî in the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.