Church of the East
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The Church of the East or the East Syriac Church, is one of three major branches of Eastern Nicene Christianity that arose from the Christological controversies in the 5th century and the 6th century,
East Syriac ceramic epitaph with Syriac and Uyghur writing.
Ruins of the Monastery of Saint Elijah in Mosul, Iraq, in 2005. The site was destroyed by the Islamic State in 2014.
Palm Sunday procession of Nestorian clergy in a 7th- or 8th-century wall painting from the Nestorian church at Karakhoja, Chinese Turkestan.
Mogao Christian painting, a late-9th-century silk painting preserved in the British Museum.
Ancient Church of the East
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The Ancient Church of the East is an East Syriac Christian denomination based in Baghdad and is composed largely of ethnic Assyrians. It separated from the Assyrian Church of the East in 1964 to estab
Church of the East
…century, the traditionalist patriarchate of the church underwent a split into two rival patriarchates, namely the Assyrian Church of the East and the Ancient Church of the East, which continue to follow the traditional theology and liturgy of the mother church. The Chaldean Catholic Church based in Iraq and the Syro-Malabar…
Cathedral of the Virgin Mary Baghdad, Iraq
Christ Pantocrator mosaic from Hagia Sophia 2240 x 3109 pixels 2.5 MB