Discover the best top things to do in Ninawa Province, Iraq including Rabban Hormizd Monastery, Mar Matti Monastery, Rabban Hormizd Monastery, Hatra, Al Noree Al Kaber Mosque, Mosul Grand Mosque.
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Rabban Hormizd Monastery is an important monastery of the Chaldean Catholic Church, founded about 640 AD, carved out in the mountains about 2 miles from Alqosh, Iraq, 28 miles north of Mosul. It was the official residence of the patriarchs of the Eliya line of the Church of the East from 1551 to the 18th century, and after the union with Rome in the early 19th century, it became a prominent monastery of the Chaldean Catholic Church.
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