Religions that have disappeared/declined significantly in places where they originated or once flourished?
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The eradication of Christianity in the Middle East comes to mind. In fact, it's history in the making, as it continues to this very day.
I noticed people find my answer incorrect. Probably because it's happening right now. That is not history, is it?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_the_Middle_East#Persecution_of_Christians_in_Middle_East
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians_in_the_modern_era#Middle_East
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_exodus_from_Iraq
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/alon-benmeir/the-persecution-of-christ_b_13652002.html
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The best example I can provide you with is the Ancient Persian Zoroastrian religion.
Zoroastrianism, was either the earliest or certainly one of the earliest religions of Ancient Persia-(present-day Iran). The dates for the Founder of Zoroastrianism-(the Prophet Zoroaster or Zarathustra), are debatable, ranging anywhere between 600 BC/BCE-1000 BC/BCE. I personally tend to think that Zoroaster/Zarathustra lived around the 600's BC/BCE-(which was the same time when Persia, as a civilization, was uniting into a major power and preparing for their imperial campaigning across much of Asia).
The Zoroastrian religion was the national religion of Persia-(as well as neighboring Uzbekistan, though to a limited extent) for nearly 1300 years, until the arrival of the Arabs and the Islamic religion. When the Muslims conquered Persia-(specifically, the Early Medieval Sassanian Empire), the vast majority of its inhabitants were forcibly converted to Islam and a tiny percentage of Zoroastrians remained within Persia. Immediately before the Arab Muslim conquest of Sassanian Persia, a small percentage of Persian Zoroastrians migrated to India and have resided in India to the present-day-(they are referred to as, "Parsis").
Zoroastrianism is barely kept alive within contemporary Iran, though the Parsis of India have retained many of their ancient Zoroastrian practices into the present-day.
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