Alqosh
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Alqosh is a town in the Nineveh Plains of northern Iraq, a sub-district of the Tel Kaif District situated 45 km north of the city of Mosul.
General view of Alqosh
Rabban Hormizd Monastery
Views around the town of alqosh
Supposed tomb of the Prophet Nahum
Chaldean Catholic Church
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The Chaldean Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic particular church in full communion with the Holy See and the rest of the Catholic Church, and is headed by the Chaldean Patriarchate. Employing in its liturgy the East Syriac Rite in the Syriac dialect of the Aramaic language, it is part of Syriac Christianity. Headquartered in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Sorrows, Baghdad, Iraq, since 1950, it is headed by the Catholicos-Patriarch Louis Raphaël I Sako. In 2010, it had a membership of 490,371, of whom 310,235 (63.27%) lived in the Middle East.
Rabban Hormizd Monastery, in the mountains northeast of Alqosh, the historically most significant monastery of the Chaldean Catholic Church.
Credentials of Abdisho IV Maron, Sulaqa's successor, to the Council of Trent in 1562
Cathedral of Saint Joseph, Ankawa, Archeparchy of Arbil.
St. Joseph Chaldean Catholic Church, Tehran