ISIS Destroys 1300-Year-Old Church, Oldest Islamic Shrine in Iraq

BREITBART
By Frances Martel

Islamists Destroy 7th Century Church, Mosque in Tikrit, Iraq

IRAN---BBC Arabic reports that the terrorists of the Islamic State, in full control of the Iraqi city of Tikrit, have destroyed two of its most ancient religious sites: the 1300-year-old Assyrian Green Church and the ancient Forty Shrine mosque. According to the Assyrian International News Agency, which translated the BBC's Arabic-language report, Islamic State terrorists surrounded both buildings with explosives and completely leveled them. The Assyrian Green Church is believed to have been built in 700 A.D. and was considered among the most elaborate and beautiful ancient Christian sites in Iraq. [link]