Sayidat al-Nejat was repaired and reopened, and Sunday Mass is celebrated in it; the names of the dead are on a memorial inside. The same pattern held after 2014: the Syriac Catholic cathedral in Qaraqosh, al-Tahira, was burned and used as a firing range by Islamic State, and it was reconsecrated in 2017 and hosted Pope Francis in March 2021. Clergy describe the practice as a refusal to concede the ground, and are candid that it asks a great deal of families who lost people in the building. Not everyone has come back; Qaraqosh's population is well below its pre-2014 level.