St. Mary's Church from Tell Nasri

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The Marienkirche of Tell Nasri or Mart Meryem ( Arabic كنيسة مارت مريم), Syrian Mat-Maryam is a now in ruins church building of the Assyrian Church of the East in the village of Tell Nasri in Syria, inhabited by Christian Chabur Assyrians . It was the largest Assyrian church building in Syria. Since it was blown up by the terrorist organization Daesch (IS) on Easter Sunday 2015, it can no longer be used as a church.

General

The pilgrimage church of Mat-Maryam had a large nave and two tall towers with eye-catching crosses. It was (or its ruin is) clearly visible from afar. It is (e) the largest of all the churches of the Assyrian Church of the East in Syria.

history

The first pilgrimage church Mat-Maryam (also: Mart Meryem, Sankt Marien) was built from clay in 1934 when the new village of the Chabur Assyrians Tell Nasri was founded by the Walṭwaye ("people of Walṭo") from the Hakkâri area . At the end of the 20th century, the new concrete church was built.

During the civil war in Syria , Tell Nasri was captured by the Islamist terrorist organization Daesch (IS) on February 23, 2015 . All residents left the place before the threatened reign of terror. On Easter Sunday, April 5, 2015, units of the Syrian Democratic Forces tried unsuccessfully to retake the place. On that day, at 9 a.m., the Islamists blew up St. Mary's Church in Tell Nasri after they had already destroyed all of the houses. In May 2015, the Syrian Democratic Forces succeeded in retaking Tell Nasri as a result of US air strikes against Daesh. After the end of the reign of terror, five of the former 1000 inhabitants (or 650 in 2004 according to the census) - members of a family and members of the parish - returned to Tell Nasri by 2019. The church, like most of the houses, is still in ruins.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Shabo Talay : The New Aramaic Dialects of the Khabur Assyrians in Northeast Syria: Introduction, Phonology and Morphology. Semitica Viva 40, Harrassowitz Verlag , Wiesbaden 2008, p. 21.
  2. ↑ Ben Hubbard: 'There Are No Girls Left': Syria's Christian Villages Hollowed Out by ISIS. New York Times , August 15, 2018.
  3. ^ ISIS Destroys Assyrian Church in Syria. Assyrian International News Agency (AINA News), April 5, 2015.
  4. ↑ Mart Meryem: Assyrian Church in Tel Nasri. Aid to the Church in Need, ACN International. Christians of Syria, ACN Syria, accessed May 19, 2020.
  5. ↑ Otmar Oehring: On the situation and perspectives of Christians in north and north-east Syria. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin 2019. pp. 32–35, tables in the appendix pp. 82–85.
  6. ↑ Christmas revived in a village devastated by Islamic State. Reuters, December 26, 2018.

Coordinates: 36 ° 38 ′ 19.2 ″  N , 40 ° 22 ′ 7.7 ″  E