About Taksa

Taksa is the Aramaic (Sureth) word for the order of liturgical service.

Taksa is a bilingual reference for the Chaldean Rite — the prayers, masses, sacramental rites, lectionaries, hymns, and chant tones used by the Chaldean Catholic Church and the wider East Syriac tradition. It exists so the diaspora and the curious alike can carry the order of service with them.

What's inside

• Slotha — Prayer: the English Mass, the Chaldean Mass, and the Sunday + Daily Lectionary across ten liturgical seasons.
• Taksa — Liturgy: baptism, engagement, wedding, funeral, lector & subdiaconate ordination, holy orders, and the liturgical calendar.
• Qaleh — Tones: hymns, chants, instrumentals, Ramsha volumes, and the Ramsha martyr hymns, with audio playback.
• Services: Bautha, funeral services, rosary, and the Stations of the Cross in both Arabic and Sureth.
• Alphabet: a reference for the 22 Syriac letters and the Resh d'Qala chant tones tied to each.

Our story

Taksa was born from a journey. In 2017, Royal Hannosh traveled to Iraq on a three-month pilgrimage — arriving with only a basic knowledge of the Chaldean rite, and leaving with an ambition to preserve and share the liturgical prayers and blessings he had received in the ancestral homeland.

He brought the idea to Amer Junior Yono, and together they built the first Taksa, released on the App Store that same year. It was Junior's first project as a developer.

Years on, Junior is a seasoned software engineer — and v2.0 is the result: a complete rebuild on React Native, bilingual with full RTL support and brought to Android for the first time, so the Chaldeans of the future, wherever they find themselves, can learn from and pray with the same tradition.

Credits

Co-founded by Royal Hannosh and Amer Junior Yono. App icon and visual identity preserved from the original Maju Designs release.