Naqortaya Monastery

Naqortaya Monastery - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Dayra d'Mar Yoḥannan Daylamáyá (Monastery of Saint John of Dailam), also known as Naqortaya and Muqurtaya ( , literally "chiseled monastery"), is a Syriac Orthodox monastery that lies 3 km north of Bakhdida in Northern Iraq. Read more on Wikipedia

type: monastery
date from: 7th century AD

Source: en.wikipedia.org