Satellite images published by the Associated Press confirmed the militant group has razed the 1,400-year-old St. Elijah's Monastery to the ground.

Satellite images published by the Associated Press Wednesday confirmed that the militant group ISIS has razed Iraq's oldest Christian monastery to the ground.

The site of the monastery on March 31, 2011, left, and Sept. 28, 2014.

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The ancient St. Elijah's Monastery, located just south of Mosul, has been a place of Christian worship for 1,400 years, including for U.S. troops who briefly used it as a garrison and chapel in 2009.

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However, ISIS — who occupy much of that area of Iraq and view religious heritage sites which run contrary or counter to their interpretation of Islam as heretical — have reduced the structure to rubble.

The monastery — which had been home to many generations of monks in previous millenia — had its stone walls "literally pulverized" by the militant group, satellite imagery analyst Stephen Wood of Allsource Analysis told AP.