• Rabban Hormizd Monastery is built half about half way up the range of mountains which encloses the plain of Mosul on the north, and stands in a sort of...
  • This led henceforth to the scattering of the Rabban Hormizd Monastery’s monks. After persecution periods, came the time for revival periods.
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  • Rabban Hormizd Monastery, named after its founder, was built when Muslim armies were conquering the Middle East, and fortified over time.
  • At the beginning of the 19th century, the Rabban Hormizd Monastery was rebuilt and restored. By 1838 the monastery suffered another attack.
  • Rabban Mar Hormizd founded the monastery named after him in the year 640. Centuries later, it became one of the holiest sites for Chaldean Catholics.
  • About a 2 hour drive from Erbil, the Rabban Hormizd Monastery is a must visit for anyone interested in Kurdistan's rich history.
  • The lower slab bears a memorial inscription of the monk Gabriel Danbo (1832 AD), including his works and life events at the Rabban Hormizd monastery.
  • However, the ruins of the Rabban Hormizd Monastery, where we went to next, was the place that really interested me.
  • Yohannan Sulaqa was priest of the Rabban Hormizd Monastery before his movement to Rome to end up the main Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church.
  • Rabban Hormizd Monastery, in Kurdish ܕܝܪܐ ܕܪܒܢ ܗܘܪܡܝܙܕ and in Arabic دير الربان هرمزد is a monastery of the Assyrian Church of The East.
  • Rabban Hormizd Monastery is built half about half way up the range of mountains which encloses the plain of Mosul on the north, and stands in a sort of...