On 11 June, sixty-five Armenian families and their priest have left Mosul to escape extremist Islamists who terrorize members of Christian communities in the city. The 
Armenian community of Basra to host families and grant them asylum.
The Armenian Church of the Holy Spirit, he destroyed a few years ago when she had just been completed and waiting for his consecration, was burned.
First Armenian church called Saint Echmiadzin was built in the city in 1857. In 1968, a larger church was built on the site of the first sanctuary and a school. The city had two other places of worship Armenian: the chapel of neighborhood “Guirgougui Ghoria” and the church of the Holy Mother of God (restored in 1997-1998).