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'''Sharafiya''' is a village located in [[Nineveh Governorate]] in [[Iraq]].<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=Sharafiya |url=http://www.ishtartv.com/en/viewarticle,35899.html |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=5 July 2020 |website=Ishtar TV}}</ref>
 
The village is located about 40 Kilometers northwest of the city of [[Mosul]], and is on the main road that connects [[Mosul]] to [[Alqosh]], which it is only 5 kilometers south of. Prior to its destruction by the [[Islamic State]], it was home to about 400 families.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Giovanni |first=Janine di |title=The Vanishing: In the field: the burgeoning understanding of moral injury |url=https://harpers.org/archive/2018/12/the-vanishing-christians-in-iraq-syria-egypt/ |access-date=2024-05-04 |work=Harper's Magazine |language=en |volume=December 2018 |issn=0017-789X}}</ref> After the defeat of the Islamic State in the region by the Kurdish [[Peshmerga]], the village's Church of St. George was restored and baptisms of infants resumed in January 2018.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=18 August 2014 |title=Battle rages for control of Mosul dam |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2014/8/18/battle-rages-for-control-of-mosul-dam |access-date=2024-05-04 |website=[[Al Jazeera]] |language=en}}</ref>
The village is located about 40 Kilometers northwest of the city of [[Mosul]], and is on the main road that connects [[Mosul]] to [[Alqosh]], which it is only 5 kilometers south of.
 
==Population==
[[File:Easter Mass in Mar Georges church in Sharafiya.jpg|thumb|Easter Mass in Mar Georges church in Sharafiya ([[Ancient Church of the East]]).]]
Sharafiya was predominantly populated by [[Yazidis]] before [[Assyrian people|Assyrians]] of the [[Tyari (tribe)|Tyari]] tribe settled in the village fleeing [[Hakkari (historical region)|Hakkâri]] during the [[Assyrian genocide]]. There are two churches in the village: a Chaldean Catholic church and an [[Ancient Church of the East]] named Mar Gewargis (St. George).<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Sharafiya|url=http://www.ishtartv.com/en/viewarticle,35899.html|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=5 July 2020|website=Ishtar TV}}</ref>
 
==See also==
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