Monastery of Our Lady Protector of the Crops
Monastery of Our Lady Protector of the Crops is a church in Tel Keppe District, Nineveh Governorate. Monastery of Our Lady Protector of the Crops is situated nearby to the church Dabur Orphanage, as well as near the village Sharafiyah.- Type: Church
- Also known as: “Dayr as Saydah”
- Address: Alqosh
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Rabban Hormizd Monastery.
Rabban Hormizd Monastery
Church
Photo: Chaldean, Public domain.
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. Rabban Hormizd Monastery is situated 2 km north of Monastery of Our Lady Protector of the Crops.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alqosh and Sharafiyah.
Alqosh
Photo: Chaldean, Public domain.
Alqosh is an ethnically Assyrian town in the contested Nineveh Province of Iraq, but controlled by Iraqi Kurdistan.
Sharafiyah
Village
Photo: Atoraya, Public domain.
Sharafiya is a village in the Nineveh Plains of northern Iraq, a sub-district of the Tel Kaif District situated 40 km northwest of the city of Mosul and is on the main road that connects Mosul to Alqosh, which it is only 5 kilometers south of. Sharafiyah is situated 5 km south of Monastery of Our Lady Protector of the Crops.
Khatarah
Village
Khatarah is a town located in the Tel Kaif District of the Ninawa Governorate in northern Iraq. It is located 50 kilometres north of Mosul in the Nineveh Plains. It belongs to the disputed territories of Northern Iraq. Khatarah has a mainly Yazidi population. Khatarah is situated 10 km southwest of Monastery of Our Lady Protector of the Crops.
Monastery of Our Lady Protector of the Crops
- Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Tel Keppe District, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
36.73234° or 36° 43′ 56″ northLongitude
43.11119° or 43° 6′ 40″ eastOpen location code
8H85P4J6+WFOpenStreetMap ID
way 1094323427OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=church
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to German—“Monastery of Our Lady Protector of the Crops” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دير السيدة”
- German: “Kloster Unserer Frau der Saaten”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Dabur Orphanage and اسايش القوش.
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