Dair Mar Elia

Dair Mar Elia, also referred to as Saint Elijah's Monastery, become a Christian monastery located simply south of Mosul, within the Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. It became founded in the past due 6th century, and it changed into one of the oldest monasteries in Iraq. It belonged to the Church of the East, an historic department of Eastern Christianity. The monastery closed in 1743, after its priests were massacred by means of Persian forces. Its ruins had been broken at some point of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and become later demolished by means of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in 2014.

The monastery become founded round 595 AD by way of Mar Elia, a monk who had formerly studied at al-Hirah and later inside the incredible monastery at Izla mountain in current Turkey. It belonged to the Chaldean Catholic Church. The monastery was the middle of the local Christian network and for centuries thousands of Christians could go to the monastery to examine the Mar Elia Holiday, which falls on the closing Wednesday of November.