Rabban Hormizd Monastery is an important
monastery of the
Chaldean Church. It is carved out in the mountains about 2 miles from
Alqosh,
Iraq, 28 miles north of
Mosul. Founded on about the 640 AD, it has been the official residence of the patriarchs of the
Eliya line of the
Church of the East from 1551 to the 18th century, and after the union with
Rome in the early 19th century, it became a prominent monastery of the Chaldean Church.