Image View Description:
Interior: Rockcut tunnel
Date:
Early 7th century
Location:
Alqosh (Iraq)
Work Type:
architecture
Culture:
Assyrian-Chaldean
Creator:
St. Hormizd (Persian patron, Late 6th to the 7th century)
Digital Media Source
Photography by the Media Center for Art History, Department of Art History & Archaeology, Columbia University, produced as a part of the Mapping Mesopotamian Monuments project
Digitized Media Source
Photographer:
Serdar Yalcin
Notes:

The monastery experienced several restorations and extensions since its first construction in the early 7th century.

Record ID:
1314_iraq2013_strabbanhormizd_vr_06