St Elijah monastery in Mosul, Iraq, oldest Christian monastery destroyed by ISIS - BBC News

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Satellite images showing the site of St Elijah's Monastery in March 2011 and September 2014 Satellite images confirm that the oldest Christian monastery in Iraq has been destroyed by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS). St Elijah's stood on a hill near the northern city of Mosul for 1,400

years.

But analysts said the images, obtained by the Associated Press, external, suggested it had been demolished in late 2014, soon after IS seized the city.

A Catholic priest from Mosul warned that its Christian history was "being barbarically levelled".

"We see it as an attempt to expel us from Iraq, eliminating and finishing our existence in this land," said Father Paul Thabit Habib, who now lives in Kurdish-administered Irbil.

St Elijah's Monastery, or Deir Mar Elia, was believed to have been built in the late 6th Century

IS has targeted Christians in Iraq and neighbouring Syria, seizing their property and forcing them to convert to Islam, pay a special tax or flee.

The group has also [...]

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