ABSTRACT
During the course of the nineteenth century Christian missionary organizations, such as the British based Church Missionary Society (CMS), came to rely increasingly on the membership of female as well as male workers. Discovering the advantages of influencing indigenous women through female missionaries, the CMS began encouraging women's participation and was soon dependent upon their involvement. In Iran, where CMS established itself in 1869, wives were present from the earliest times. However, it was from 1882, and more particularly from the 1890s, that single women's involvement became a major part of the missionary endeavour that led to the founding of the Anglican Church in Iran.
