Failaka: al-Qusur church and monastery

Attested. Archaeologically attested. Some propose a 5th-6th-century start from the cross decoration; the pottery points to the 7th-9th centuries.

A French-Kuwaiti team found a church at al-Qusur in the middle of Failaka in the late 1980s (published 1991), later shown to be part of a monastery with a second church and settlement. Stucco crosses point to a Church of the East community. Pottery dates the occupation from the early 7th century into the 9th, well into the Islamic period.

Source stance: neutral. Archaeology.

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