Ankawa
Ankawa is a suburb of Erbil in Kurdistan Region, Iraq. It is located 8 kilometres northwest of downtown Erbil. The suburb is predominantly populated by Christian Assyrians, most of whom adhere to the Chaldean Catholic Church.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town
- Description: suburb of Erbil, Kurdistan
- Also known as: “‘Aynkawah”, “‘Aynkāwah”, “Ainkawa”, “Aynkawah”, “Aynkāwah”, and “Markaz ‘Aynkāwah”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saint Joseph Church and Jalil Khayat Mosque.
Saint Joseph Church
Church
Photo: Basharh, Public domain.
The Cathedral of Saint Joseph, Ankawa, also known as Cathedral of Mar Yousif, is the Chaldean Catholic cathedral and seat of the Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan created under the pontificate of Pope Paul VI.
Jalil Khayat Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Sarbast.T.Hameed, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Jalil Khayat Mosque is a Sunni mosque in Erbil, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It is the largest mosque in Erbil. The mosque was begun by Jalil Khayat, who later died in 2005, and it was completed in 2007 by his sons in memory of their father. Jalil Khayat Mosque is situated 3½ km southeast of Ankawa.
Ankawa
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Erbil, Erbil Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
36.22836° or 36° 13′ 42″ northLongitude
43.99534° or 43° 59′ 43″ eastElevation
413 metres (1,355 feet)Open location code
8H856XHW+84OpenStreetMap ID
node 2479376280OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Ankawa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “عنكاوا”
- Arabic: “عنكاوة”
- Arabic: “عينكاوا”
- Arabic: “عينكاوة”
- Arabic: “عينكاوه”
- Arabic: “مركز عينكاوة”
- Central Kurdish: “عەنکاوە”
- Czech: “Ankava”
- Czech: “Ankawa”
- Dutch: “Ankawa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “عنكاوا”
- Finnish: “Ankawa”
- French: “Ankawa”
- German: “Ankawa”
- Irish: “Ankawa”
- Kurdish: “‘Enkawe”
- Kurdish: “‘Eynkawa”
- Kurdish: “Enkawa”
- Kurdish: “Enkawe”
- Kurdish: “عەينكاوا”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Enkawa”
- Norwegian: “Enkawa”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܥܢܟܒܐ”
- Persian: “عنکاوا”
- Portuguese: “Ankawa”
- Russian: “Анкава”
- Spanish: “Ankawa”
- Swedish: “Ankawa”
- Thai: “อันกาวา”
- Turkish: “Ankava”
- Urdu: “عنکاوہ”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ankawa”. Photo: Lamacchiacosta, CC BY-SA 4.0.