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Beth Qatraye
Qatar, Bahrain and the eastern Arabian coast (region; pin in Qatar), Qatar / Bahrain / Saudi Arabia / UAE · Persia & Church of the East (supplement)
25.500, 51.250
Approximate location. The map shows a region, not a pin.
Attested. Attested by synod acts and by authors' names. The pin is a regional anchor.
Beth Qatraye
Qatar, Bahrain and the eastern Arabian coast (region; pin in Qatar)
Beth Qatraye ('region of the Qataris') was the Church of the East's name for the Gulf coast of Arabia. It got its own metropolitan in 676 at the synod of Dairin, and it produced notable Syriac writers such as Isaac of Nineveh and Dadisho Qatraya. Excavated churches and monasteries along the coast confirm the written record.
Added from later research
cross-reference · 410-676
Located dioceses of Beth Qatraye
The Beth Qatraye region-anchor record now has located dioceses: Mashmahig (samahij, 410) and Dairin (tarut-dairin, 410; synod 676), plus the Gulf churches at failaka, akkaz and jubail.
attested. Synod acts and archaeology.
Source stance: insider. Syriac church records; archaeology is neutral.
People and groups named here
- Isaac of Nineveh
- Dadisho Qatraya
- Gabriel of Qatar
Related places
Sources
- Beth Qatraye (e-GEDSH)
Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, electronic ed., Beth Mardutho. Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Beth Qatraye (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors. Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Dioceses of the Church of the East to 1318 (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors. Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Christianity in pre-Islamic Arabia (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors. Accessed 2026-11-11.
Further reading
Councils here
None in this list.