Mar Mattai Monastery

Nineveh · Iraq

Mar Mattai Monastery, Iraq
Photo: Levi Clancy, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Perched high on Mount Alfaf northeast of Mosul, this Syriac Orthodox monastery is among the oldest Christian communities in the world. Its fortified walls guard manuscripts and command the Nineveh plain.

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