Monastery of Hind the Elder

The Monastery of Hind the Elder (Dayr Hind al-Kubrā) was a monastery of the city of Al-Hira in Mesopotamia, capital of the Lakhmid kingdom (present-day Iraq). The monastery is named after Hind, who was the wife of the Lakhmid king Al-Mundhir III and the daughter of al-Harith ibn Amr, the most famous king of the Kingdom of Kinda of Central Arabia.