Dair Mar Elia (Syriac: ܕܝܪܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܐܝܠܝܐ, Arabic: دير مار إيليا), also known as Saint Elijah's Monastery, was a monastery located just south of Mosul, in the Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. It was established in the late 6th century and was one of the oldest monasteries in Iraq. It belonged to the Church of the East, an ancient branch of Eastern Christianity, and then to the Chaldean Catholic Church. The monastery closed in 1743, after its monks were massacred by Persian forces. Its ruins were damaged during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and was later destroyed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in 2014.
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