Objective: Despite the several millennim precedent of writing among Iranians, The popularity of the press has not much history in Iran which also was a kind of cultural import and impressed by the West societies. This Penetration of West in the culture and politics of the Qajar era as well as the new religious ideas and thoughts such as Babism and Bahaism that manifestated in Iran, set alarm bells ringing about the Islamic traditions and Shiism, So it has led to the remarkable presence of the Clergy to resist the foreign newfaungled ideas what cultural activities and at the heart of them, Publicating the religious journals and publishing articles in the other kind of journals were the way of their confrontation. Therefore, the emergence of religious press and their growth as the first specialized publications in Iran, provided.
Methods: In this regard, the current research aims to consider the manifestation of the first religious press in Iran introuducing some components namely the new educational system and modernity and religious intellectualism which somehow played a role in the extension of the religious press, meanwhile using a descriptive-analytical approach and relying on the library sources to examin the developemnet process of religious publications.
Conclusions: The outcomes of the present study represent that the growth of the religious press in Iran has taken place in a couter current with West imported modern thoughts, likewise some interior ideas that popularized in Iran mainly during the constitutional period and after that