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The Monastery of Saint Elijah, or Dair Mar Elia (Syriac: ܕܝܪܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܐܝܠܝܐ; Arabic: دير مار إيليا), was located in Mosul, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. Established in the late 6th century, it was one of Iraq's oldest monasteries. It belonged to the Church of the East and then to the Chaldean Catholic Church.
The Monastery of Mar Behnam is also called Deir Al-Jubb (The Cistern Monastery). Situated in the Nineveh Plain near Nimrud about 32 km southwest of Mosul, it was built in the 4th century and expanded in the 12th or 13th century. The monastery is a great fort-like building rising next to the tomb of Mar Behnam. This was a prince who was killed ...
Elijah (alternate spelling of Elias), a prophet of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament and the Qur'an; Mar Elias Educational Institutions, a set of Educational Institutes in Ibillin, Israel; Mar Elias Monastery, a Greek Orthodox Monastery between Jerusalem and Bethlehem; Mar Elias, a street in Beirut
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Ruins of the Monastery of Saint Elijah in Mosul, Iraq, in 2005. The site was destroyed by the Islamic State in 2014. The Church faced a major schism in 1552 following the consecration of monk Yohannan Sulaqa by Pope Julius III in opposition to the reigning Catholicos-Patriarch Shimun VII , leading to the formation of the Chaldean Catholic Church .
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The Church of Saint Elijah (Serbian: Црква светог Илије, romanized: Crkva svetog Ilije; Albanian: Kisha e Shën Ilias), also known as Saint Andrew's Church, is а Serbian Orthodox church located on a small hill near the city of Podujevë, in Kosovo. The complex includes an Orthodox cemetery.