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The most important monastery for the Chaldean Catholic Church, founded in 640 AD. Although not much can be seen in the caves behind the buildings, its well worth the trip - if only for the view into the valley. Try to come either before or after lunch time, since the soldier guarding it might be taking a break and therefore close the place.
Rabban Hormizd Monastery is an important convent to the Assyrian Church of the East, and the Chaldean Catholic Church, founded about 640 AD by the Church of the East, 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 Assyrian Church of the East from 1551 to the 18th century, and after the union with Rome in the early 19th century, passed to becoming a prominent monastery of the Chaldean Catholic Church.
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The town's main Chaldean Catholic church, built in 1906. Like many churches in the area, it seems to be open rather in the afternoons.
One of several sites where the prophet Nahum, one of the Twelve Minor Prophets in the Old Testament, is supposed to be buried. For centuries, the tomb had been a regional pilgrimage destination until the Kurdish-Jewish community emigrated en masse to Israel in 1951.