Rabban Hormizd Monastery, Al Qosh

It is located 2.5 km northeast of Alqosh in the heart of a high mountain, 900 meters above sea level. Rabban Hormizd Monastery is about 52 km from the city of Mosul, and 46 km from the city of Dohuk.

Rabban Hormizd Monastery is one of the greatest Chaldean monasteries.

It was established by Rabban Hormizd Nestorian in the seventh century AD. That is in the year 640 AD.

There is a painting painted on one of the monastery walls showing Rabban Hormizd calling for the recovery of a sick person.

On the walls of the monastery, inscriptions in the Chaldean language are engraved, some of which date back to 1470 AD.

Rabban Hormizd Monastery is another witness to the religious and national diversity of the land of Iraq.

Rabban was dispersed after the attacks of Timur in the late fourteenth century, as well as during the attack of the Mongols in the middle of the sixteenth century.

At the end of the year 1552, the bishops and believers from the Church of the East chose the abbot of the monastery, Rabban Youkhna Solaka, to be their father and supreme head. They sent him to Rome, where he was ordained patriarch and became the first Catholic patriarch.

It is an architectural edifice of stone and contains many caves, as well as a group of tombs It includes 400 silos for worship.

Visiting hours are from 8 am to 1 pm From 3 pm until 6 PM.