In the period of its greatest expansion, in the tenth century, the Syriac Orthodox Church had around 20 metropolitan dioceses and a little over a hundred suffragan dioceses. By the seventeenth century
Deir Zaʿfaran, the 'saffron monastery', seat of the Syriac Orthodox patriarchs after the First World War
Syriac village of Kafro, recently resettled by European Syriac returnees
Syrian orthodox church Al-Hasakah
Rasal-Ain Church
Mor Gabriel Monastery
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The Monastery of Saint Gabriel, also known as Monastery of Qartmin, Deir el-ʿUmr, Deyrulumur, and in Turkish, Mor Gabriel Manastırı, is a Syriac Orthodox monastery located near Midyat in the Tur Abdin
Dioceses of the Syriac Orthodox Church
…Orthodox dioceses are known to have existed before the thirteenth century in the Tur ʿAbdin. The diocese of Qartmin, whose bishops sat in the celebrated monastery of Mar Gabriel (Qartmin Abbey), is attested from the sixth century onwards; and the diocese of Tur ʿAbdin, whose bishops sat in the monastery of the Cross near the…
Towers of the monastery's churches
A building complex on one side of the monastery
Transverse arches of the main church
Dome of Theodora