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
Towers of the monastery's churches
A building complex on one side of the monastery
Transverse arches of the main church
Dome of Theodora
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
Mor Gabriel Monastery
…government. Mor Gabriel Monastery is the world's oldest continuously active Assyrian monastery and remains the residence and administrative centre of the Tur Abdin Metropolitan Bishop. Long regarded by Assyrians as "the sun of eastern monasteries", it helped give Tur Abdin the epithet "the second Jerusalem" and "the heartbeat of…
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