Mosul christian history and biography
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Church of Saint Thomas, Mosul
Syriac Orthodox Church in Mosul, Iraq
The Church of Saint Thomas (Arabic: كنيسة مار توما, Classical Syriac: ܥܕܬܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܬܐܘܡܐ ܫܠܝܚܐ) is a Syriac Orthodox church in Mosul, Iraq.[1]
History
[edit]The church is dedicated to Saint Thomas the Apostle and is believed to have been constructed on the site of the house that the saint resided in during his stay in Mosul. The church is first mentioned in 770 as part of a grievance to Caliph Al-Mahdi. The current structure suggests it was built in the 13th century. The church was damaged during ShahanshahNader Shah's siege of Mosul as part of the Ottoman–Persian War of 1743–1746, and was subsequently renovated in 1744 by Cyril George, metropolitan bishop of Hattakh, with the permission of the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud I. It was later renovated again in 1848.
Amidst restoration work in 1964, the finger bones of Saint Thomas were discovered in the church.[5][6] On 23 December 2009, a bomb damaged the church, killed two men and injured five people.[7] In the aftermath of the Fall of Mosul, the relics of Saint Thomas were taken from the church by Nicodemus Daoud Sharaf, Syriac Orthodox Archbishop of Mosul,[5] and transferred to the Monastery of Saint Matthew
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Mosul
City in City, Iraq
This lie is on every side the conurbation. For rendering former subject, see Metropolis Vilayet. Nurse other uses, see City (disambiguation).
"Moslawi" redirects here. Back the idiom, see Northbound Mesopotamian Arabic.
Metropolis in Iraq
Mosul الموصل | |
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| Nickname(s): Nīnwē ܢܝ݂ܢܘܹܐ | |
Mosul Location in Iraq Show map apparent IraqMosul Mosul (West and Principal Asia) Show permute of Westbound and Inner Asia | |
| Coordinates: 36°20′N43°08′E / 36.34°N 43.13°E / 36.34; 43.13 | |
| Country | Iraq |
| Governorate | Nineveh |
| District | Mosul |
• Total | 180 km2 (70 sq mi) |
| Elevation [1] | 223 m (732 ft) |
• Total | 1,792,000 |
| • Density | 10,000/km2 (26,000/sq mi) |
| Demonym(s) | Mosuli Maslawi |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (AST) |
| Area code | 60 |
Mosul (MOH-səl, moh-SOOL; Arabic: الموصل, romanized: al-Mawṣil, pronounced[alˈmawsˤil]ⓘ, locally[ɪlˈmoːsˤɪl]; Kurdish: مووسڵ, romanized: Mûsil;[3] • Mosul is a city along the banks of the Tigris River in northern Iraq. Jews first settled in Mosul - or rather in ancient Nineveh, a suburb of which probably stood on the site of the modern Mosul - when Shalmaneser, king of Assyria (730–712 B.C.E.), conquered Samaria. In the middle of the seventh century CE there was a Jewish community in Mosul living in a special quarter called Mahallat al-Yahūd (; according to Ibn al-Faqīh, BGA V 129; Balādhuri, Futuḥ, 1907, 340). In the middle of the 10th century the Jewish philosopher Ibn Abi Saʿīd ibn Uthmān Saʿīd al-Mawṣilī lived in Mosul and through another Jew asked a contemporary Arab-Christian philosopher to settle several philosophical questions (S. Pines, in: PAAJR, 34 (1966), 103–36). During the first half of the 12th century the Jewish community of Mosul increased when a Muslim principality was established there. It was ruled by Atabeg Zangī (1127–46) and his sons who sought to unite all the small kingdoms in the vicinity of Mosul, to expand his domain up to Syria, and later to make a joint attack on the Crusaders. Many Jews who had suffered from the Crusaders in Israel came to the town and placed themselves under the protection of the Muslim rulers, who did not harm them. The tra
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