Tags: Religious Building.
Dayra d’Mar Oraha (Syriac: ܕܝܪܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܘܪܐܗܐ) (Saint Abraham Monastery) is a Chaldean Catholic monastery in northern Iraq close to the town of Batnaya.The monastery is traditionally attributed to Mar Oraha who was forced to abandon his hermitage in Mount Alfaf due to a draught and descended to the plains of Nineveh where he built his monastery during Ishoʿyahb I’s patriarchy (581-596).
