Green Church
The St. Ahoademmeh Church ( Arabic كنيسة مار احودامه), known as the Green Church (الكنيسة الخضراء), was a 7th century Syrian Orthodox church in Tikrit (Tagrit) that was destroyed by the Islamic State (IS) in 2014 . It was one of the oldest Syrian Christian church buildings in the world.
history
St. Ahoademmeh Church was completed in 700 AD by Denha II , the Syrian Orthodox Maphrian of the East , and named Ahudemmeh in memory of the metropolitan of the East from the 6th century . He was the first Syrian Orthodox Bishop of Tikrit and was the Persian king Khosrow I. killed. Metropolitan Denha was buried in the church cemetery.
In 1089 the church was looted and destroyed, so that Maphrian Johannes Sleeba had to move to the Mor Mattai monastery . In 1112 the church was rebuilt and returned to the Assyrians . During the Mongol invasions in 1258, the Assyrian parish sought refuge here, but the church was again destroyed and the Assyrians massacred. The Maphrianate finally moved to the Mor Mattai Monastery.
In the 1990s, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein funded the rebuilding of the church. Several graves, sceptres and seals were discovered during the restoration. It was destroyed by the Islamic State on September 25, 2014.
literature
- Michael Maas: The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian . Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 1-139-82687-5 , pp. 260 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed July 4, 2013]).