The Council of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, also called the Council of Mar Isaac, met in AD 410 in Seleucia-Ctesiphon, the capital of the Persian Sasanian Empire. Convened by King Yazdegerd I, it organized the
Ruined palace at Ctesiphon
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,
Council of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
…Empire. Convened by King Yazdegerd I (399–421), it organized the Christians of his empire into a single structured church, which became known as the Church of the East. The Council is often compared to Constantine's Edict of Milan from approximately a century earlier. The events of this council are documented in the…
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.