Gardabad (; ) is a village in Nazluy-e Jonubi Rural District of the Central District in Urmia County, West Azerbaijan province, Iran. The village has at least one Armenian church.
History Basil Nikitin, the Russian consul at Urmia, noted that Gardābād was entirely populated by Christians just before the First World War. Prior to the First World War, there were 100 Assyrian houses at Gardābād, as per the list presented by Agha Petros to the Lausanne Peace Conference in 1922. It was located in the Anzel District.
Demographics Population At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 537 in 127 households. The following census in 2011 counted 332 people in 85 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 417 people in 127 households.
Notable people Hovhannes Badalyan (1924–2001), Armenian singer
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