Monastery of Saint John of Dailam

Ruins of the monastery in the 1960s

The Monastery of St. John of Daylam, also known as Naqortaya and Muqurtaya ( Syro -Aramaic ܕ ܝ ܪ ܐ ܢ ܩ ܘ ܪ ܬ ܝ ܐ, Dayra naqortáyá, literally " carved monastery" ), is a Syrian- Orthodox monastery in the 7th century, which is 3 km north of Bach Dida in itself Northern Iraq is. The open to the public monastery was destroyed in the 19th century by the Muslim rulers, remained are only the altar and baptismal font.

History

The monastery is traditionally attributed to John of the Mar Daylam, who worked in the region in the 17th century, and was, according to a contemporary legend, responsible for the conversion of the people of the Church of the East for the Syriac Orthodox Church. The earliest attested mention of the monastery was in the late 9th century. A Syrian manuscript mentions the inauguration of the monastery in 1115. Hebraeus Bar records that the Muslim Kurds, the monastery in 1261 plundered, burned and its monks killed.

The monastery was rebuilt in 1563. The majority of the inhabitants of Bach Dida began to convert to Catholicism in the 18th century, the monastery, however, remained under the control of the Syrian Orthodox Church until it was again devastated. The monastery was rebuilt in 1998.

Johann von Daylam hard

The Naqortaya monastery is visited during the feast of John of Daylam, which takes place on the last Friday of the month in March, thousands of Syrian Orthodox pilgrims from the region of Nineveh Plains.

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• القديس مار يوحنا الديلمي, تاريخ الدير. moryouhanon.com, accessed on 15 March 2012 (Arabic ).